{"id":288,"date":"2010-04-14T23:06:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.wordpress.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2010-04-14T23:06:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:06:22","slug":"tea-party-claptrap-in-the-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/14\/tea-party-claptrap-in-the-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Claptrap in the NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s a quote from today&#8217;s article about the Tea Party &#8220;patriots&#8221; in the <em>New York Times<\/em> (http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/15\/us\/politics\/15poll.html?hp):<br \/>\n\u201cI just feel he\u2019s getting away from what America is,\u201d said Kathy Mayhugh, 67, a retired medical transcriber in Jacksonville. \u201cHe\u2019s a socialist. And to tell you the truth I think he\u2019s a Muslim and trying to head us in that direction, I don\u2019t care what he says. He\u2019s been in office over a year and can\u2019t find a church to go to. That doesn\u2019t say much for him.\u201d<br \/>\nAndrew Sullivan had a good piece in the London Times this week about the right-wing direction of the Republican party. Keep in mind he&#8217;s a conservative:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/andrew_sullivan\/article7094282.ece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s a quote from today&#8217;s article about the Tea Party &#8220;patriots&#8221; in the New York Times (http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/15\/us\/politics\/15poll.html?hp): \u201cI just feel he\u2019s getting away from what America is,\u201d said Kathy Mayhugh, 67, a retired medical transcriber in Jacksonville. \u201cHe\u2019s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/14\/tea-party-claptrap-in-the-ny-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}