{"id":31740,"date":"2022-03-02T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=31740"},"modified":"2022-03-02T21:01:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T04:01:46","slug":"silly-season-commencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2022\/03\/02\/silly-season-commencing\/","title":{"rendered":"silly season commencing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking as someone who defended Marco Rubio&#8217;s swig of water&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the record, I heard &#8220;Uranian&#8221;.  And this is a time where I would want to see a graph for social media on &#8221; uranian&#8221; v &#8220;iranian&#8221;.  In the old days of blogs, this charting was easy &#8212; now, someone needs to point me to something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Typing the phrase in google, I get the two definitions &#8212; &#8220;imaginary inhabitan of the planet Uranus&#8221; &#8212; as opposed to an actual inhabitant, I suppose &#8212; and &#8220;a homosexual&#8221; &#8212; I guess derived out of uranus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official line from the Biden white house is &#8220;uranian&#8221;.  A natural flub by the stutterer in chief.  And then an assist by the vice president behind him mouthing the word with a &#8221; k&#8221; inserted into it.  As it were, I do see some right wing commentary that &#8220;the president using &#8216;Iranian&#8217; does not inspire confidence.  Understand, we have a president who is&#8230; older than preferable&#8230; But nonetheless I fail to see it mattering.  I see the conspiratorial site of note highlighting the Harris mouthing part &#8212; which, I gather is not anything Biden could take note of, so fulfilling the &#8221; puppeteer&#8221; role line sort of falls flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But never mind.  Throw it into the pile of partisan debris that accumulated with each president, and works as shorthand.  As soon as everyone determines which word he choked onto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking as someone who defended Marco Rubio&#8217;s swig of water&#8230; For the record, I heard &#8220;Uranian&#8221;. And this is a time where I would want to see a graph for social media on &#8221; uranian&#8221; v &#8220;iranian&#8221;. In the old days of blogs, this charting was easy &#8212; now, someone needs to point me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31742,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31740\/revisions\/31742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}