{"id":2052,"date":"2005-03-15T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2018-07-06T11:17:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:17:18","slug":"2052","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/15\/2052\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratuitous Slap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guestblogging at VodkaPundit, someone whose blog I don&#8217;t bother with <a href=\"http:\/\/vodkapundit.com\/archives\/007623.php\" target=\"_new\">slaps the state of Kansas<\/a>.  Why?  Because it&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Face it, Kansas is a plain-Jane. It&#8217;s &#8220;I Like Ike&#8221; and Bob Dole country. It reminds me of my mosted hated food &#8211; mayonnaise &#8211; pale, bland, uniform in consistency and boring. There&#8217;s no ocean, no mountains and its population is hardly a model of diversity. And it&#8217;s always going to be that way. A simply mediocre, generic kind of place, totally devoid of bathos, highs or lows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unwarranted. really, but undoubtedly it made the author feel better about herself and the state in which she lives.<\/p>\n<p>How are you supposed to answer an ad statum attack?<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Update:<\/b><\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustbury.com\/archives\/003996.html\" target=\"_new\">Dustbury&#8217;s thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guestblogging at VodkaPundit, someone whose blog I don&#8217;t bother with slaps the state of Kansas. Why? Because it&#8217;s there. Face it, Kansas is a plain-Jane. It&#8217;s &#8220;I Like Ike&#8221; and Bob Dole country. It reminds me of my mosted hated food &#8211; mayonnaise &#8211; pale, bland, uniform in consistency and boring. There&#8217;s no ocean, no [&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-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","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=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20435,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/20435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}