{"id":1640,"date":"2004-10-21T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2018-07-31T07:54:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:54:14","slug":"1640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/1640\/","title":{"rendered":"A Symptom, Or A Root Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, we&#8217;ve all heard about the survey that says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricvenom.com\/index.php?p=6511\" target=\"_new\">Republicans have better sex than Democrats<\/a>.  Hidden within <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A49754-2004Oct20.html\" target=\"_new\">this story<\/a>, we have another symptom, or perhaps a root cause:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Laura Bush will always be, in the public imagination, The Librarian. Even for Democrats, who like to fantasize that behind her smile lurks a curious, even progressive ally, their spy in the White House, reading with her Itty Bitty book light in bed late into the night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeez, Louise, Democrats, fantasizing about Laura Bush in bed and she&#8217;s <i>reading<\/i>?  That&#8217;s pathetic.  What do you do when you get <i>really<\/i> wild?  Laura, Jenna, and Barbara in bed reading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, we&#8217;ve all heard about the survey that says Republicans have better sex than Democrats. Hidden within this story, we have another symptom, or perhaps a root cause: Laura Bush will always be, in the public imagination, The Librarian. Even for Democrats, who like to fantasize that behind her smile lurks a curious, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20888,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/20888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}