{"id":1086,"date":"2005-11-08T20:47:48","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T03:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1086"},"modified":"2005-11-08T20:47:48","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T03:47:48","slug":"politics-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1086","title":{"rendered":"Politics as Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am beginning to fear that my body is leading a secret double life, about which I know nothing.<\/p>\n

Last month it was the AARP application<\/a>–fifteen years early. This week I received in the mail a letter and survey from the Republican Senate Leadership Council.<\/p>\n

After I finished boggling over the idea, I was torn as to what to do. Fill out the survey honestly and hope that it will be a voice urging the wing-nut radicals to find a modicum of moderation, or, tape the postage paid envelope to a brick and send it back.<\/p>\n

You may be surprised to learn that I chose the first option. Solely to support the Republican moderates.<\/p>\n

But I was really tempted to go look for a brick. Preferably a lead one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am beginning to fear that my body is leading a secret double life, about which I know nothing. Last month it was the AARP application–fifteen years early. This week I received in the mail a letter and survey from the Republican Senate Leadership Council. After I finished boggling over the idea, I was torn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-hw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}