{"id":15435,"date":"2002-11-06T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-06T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/06\/cooter-lost\/"},"modified":"2002-11-06T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-06T12:36:00","slug":"cooter-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/06\/cooter-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooter lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The implications of yesterday&rsquo;s elections haven&rsquo;t fully been realized yet.  I do know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pilotonline.com\/breaking\/br1105coo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ben &ldquo;Cooter&rdquo; Jones&rsquo; defeat in his bid for Virginia congressman<\/a> is a shame.  OK, maybe not, but I just thought it would be cool to say that Cooter from &ldquo;The Dukes Of Hazzard&rdquo; made it to Congress.  I guess that shows where I stand on the voter apathy scale these days, although I did vote (eventually).  Maybe he should have rethought his platform in portraying himself as a &ldquo;`NASCAR Democrat&rsquo; who sought to &lsquo;take care of mama &#8216;n them and make sure the kids get a good education.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-85645193?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The implications of yesterday&rsquo;s elections haven&rsquo;t fully been realized yet. I do know that Ben &ldquo;Cooter&rdquo; Jones&rsquo; defeat in his bid for Virginia congressman is a shame. OK, maybe not, but I just thought it would be cool to say that Cooter from &ldquo;The Dukes Of Hazzard&rdquo; made it to Congress. I guess that shows &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/06\/cooter-lost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cooter lost&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-15435","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\/15435","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=15435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}