{"id":56056,"date":"2023-07-31T17:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=56056"},"modified":"2023-07-31T17:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T00:30:03","slug":"dingell-and-the-baby-aardvark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2023\/07\/31\/dingell-and-the-baby-aardvark\/","title":{"rendered":"Dingell and the Baby aardvark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For anyone who considered John Dingell a hero, your hero &#8216;s reputation just took a whack.  Duplicitous was his name.  And &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; Yeah, there isn&#8217;t anyone anywhere who considered John Dingell a hero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All right.  I note news coming out of Florida in the &#8220;banned book&#8221; week department, and at least a consideration of how hard I ought to pound the quotations of the book as I mock the honorific.  Arthur the Aardvark was in a book where &#8220;Spin the Bottle&#8221; was played.  Some guy complained.  Filed a protest.  In Desantis&#8217;s Florida, so that gets a bit of play political-wise.  And at first I want to throw the quotations in full force, roll my eyes at the next big &#8220;Banned Book Week Jamboree!  Including Arthur!  Right next to that Gender Queer book with the dirty pictures and award attached to it!&#8221;.  But I can tap the quotations pounding just a tad as &#8211; &#8211; well, at least the claimants of exaggerated book burning sightings have one thing with him &#8212; the guy&#8217;s the head of a political advocacy organization.  That is worth something in the discussion.  I can downgrade it to half an eye roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who considered John Dingell a hero, your hero &#8216;s reputation just took a whack. Duplicitous was his name. And &#8212; &#8230; Yeah, there isn&#8217;t anyone anywhere who considered John Dingell a hero. All right. I note news coming out of Florida in the &#8220;banned book&#8221; week department, and at least a consideration of [&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-56056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56056","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=56056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56057,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56056\/revisions\/56057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}