{"id":13290,"date":"2005-08-02T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/02\/turd-blossom\/"},"modified":"2005-08-02T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T23:06:00","slug":"turd-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/02\/turd-blossom\/","title":{"rendered":"Turd Blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doonesbury.com\/strip\/dailydose\/index.html?uc_full_date=20050726\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Doonesbury\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/doonesbury_072605_turdblossom.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doonesbury.com\/strip\/dailydose\/index.html?uc_full_date=20050726\" target=\"_blank\">Last Tuesday&rsquo;s <i>Doonesbury<\/i> comic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/books\/07\/27\/doonesbury.language.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">caused some controversy<\/a> because of the use of the nickname &ldquo;Turd Blossom&rdquo; to describe presidential advisor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karl_Rove\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Rove<\/a>.  Funny thing is, this is not a made-up moniker, but is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uselections2004\/story\/0,13918,1165126,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">actually one of the nicknames used by W<\/a> for Rove.  I have no problem with it&hellip; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/comics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">comics<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112254982933774537?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Tuesday&rsquo;s Doonesbury comic caused some controversy because of the use of the nickname &ldquo;Turd Blossom&rdquo; to describe presidential advisor Karl Rove. Funny thing is, this is not a made-up moniker, but is actually one of the nicknames used by W for Rove. I have no problem with it&hellip; \ud83d\ude09 tags: humor politics comics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}