{"id":2167,"date":"2015-11-22T14:51:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T19:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2015-11-22T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T19:51:18","slug":"twenty-two-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/22\/twenty-two-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Day of historical significance for \u201cUS Americans.\u201d Do you know why? Were you alive? (I\u2019m skeptical\u2026) What do you remember? (Bonus on this one for readers from Soviet Canuckistan\u2026.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheating a bit here, since I really haven\u2019t gone to bed after SNL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the prompt, no, I wasn\u2019t yet born. My ancestors were committed Democrats, but you\u2019d rarely hear them say something positive about a Masshole<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JFK would feel very out-of-place in today\u2019s Democrat Party; most modern hipster progressives wouldn\u2019t understand why. (Clluestick: He was Catholic, and very much anti-Communist\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, I\u2019m sure the big three news networks will roll out the \u201cwhere were you\u201d segments in tonight\u2019s newscasts. But the President was in diapers, and a lot of us ween\u2019t yet born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update on the drama that woke me:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/wavy.com\/2015\/11\/21\/drivers-cars-towed-in-norfolk-without-prior-notice-from-city\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wavy.com\/2015\/11\/21\/drivers-cars-towed-in-norfolk-without-prior-notice-from-city\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, yes, the tow drivers probably were shouting at each other, along with the pool]ple whose cars cars were being towed\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Look has yet anotherr new host. She\u2019s in Worst Korea(TM). I miss the US focus.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day of historical significance for \u201cUS Americans.\u201d Do you know why? Were you alive? (I\u2019m skeptical\u2026) What do you remember? (Bonus on this one for readers from Soviet Canuckistan\u2026.) Cheating a bit here, since I really haven\u2019t gone to bed after SNL. To the prompt, no, I wasn\u2019t yet born. My ancestors were committed Democrats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}