{"id":14650,"date":"2003-08-13T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-13T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/13\/gollum-for-governor\/"},"modified":"2003-08-13T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-13T10:57:00","slug":"gollum-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/13\/gollum-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gollum For Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Council of Elrond<\/em> reports on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.councilofelrond.com\/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=Subjects&amp;file=index&amp;req=viewpage&amp;pageid=38\" target=\"_blank\">last-minute candidate for California governor &#8211; Gollum, AKA Smeagol<\/a> has decided to throw his hat into the ring, joining the several hundred candidates already in the fray.  Running for the &ldquo;Precious Party,&rdquo; his platform is still a bit of an unknown, although he has made his feelings clear on environmentalism  (&ldquo;When the yellow face goes down\u2026nasssty lights stay off&rdquo;) and education (&ldquo;Teach them about fisssshesss\u2026&rdquo;).  His financial backing comes from a somewhat unlikely source, George Lucas, so he definitely has deep pockets in this campaign.  However, whether he can transform his popularity on the silver screen into a legitimate shot at the election remains to be seen&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106077223868729536?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Elrond reports on a last-minute candidate for California governor &#8211; Gollum, AKA Smeagol has decided to throw his hat into the ring, joining the several hundred candidates already in the fray. Running for the &ldquo;Precious Party,&rdquo; his platform is still a bit of an unknown, although he has made his feelings clear &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/13\/gollum-for-governor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gollum For Governor&#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-14650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}