{"id":12378,"date":"2011-12-15T20:44:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T02:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12378"},"modified":"2016-05-02T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:10:21","slug":"when-satire-seems-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12378","title":{"rendered":"When Satire Seems Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the Winter Solstice<\/p>\n<p>Republican presidential candidates. \u00a0Gingrich writes alternative history fiction, some of which I understand is very good. \u00a0As long he sticks to fiction, I&#8217;ll pay attention; when he blurs the line, taking the fictional world of alternative history into the day to day world of real politics, I shudder.<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney has the charisma of a cheese cloth, but hey, we Democrats nominated Michael Dukakis, John Kerry and Al Gore. \u00a0Combined they have the charismetrics of soggy diapers.<\/p>\n<p>Michele sees Romney, Gingrich and Perry as the same. \u00a0This might be one of those times when Michele and I agree. \u00a0Problem is, I&#8217;d lump her in right in there with those three. \u00a0Loony or boring. \u00a0Quite a combination of attributes.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, with the Iraq war ended, Osama dead, the economy showing signs of life and congress with a lower popularity rating than, than, well, than the Freshkills landfill, I can see a situation where Obama backs into a second term. \u00a0Might happen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the Winter Solstice Republican presidential candidates. \u00a0Gingrich writes alternative history fiction, some of which I understand is very good. \u00a0As long he sticks to fiction, I&#8217;ll pay attention; when he blurs the line, taking the fictional world of alternative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Satire Seems Impossible<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,1885],"tags":[3859,102,109],"class_list":["post-12378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-us-history","tag-election-2012","tag-obama","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36363,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12378\/revisions\/36363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}