{"id":2537,"date":"2005-07-26T04:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2018-02-12T15:06:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:06:28","slug":"our-midwestern-givhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/26\/our-midwestern-givhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Midwestern Givhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/roeper\/cst-nws-roep25.html\" target=\"_new\">Richard Roeper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You probably read the stories or saw the footage of little John Roberts acting up as President Bush introduced John&#8217;s daddy, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. He wiggled and danced around, and generally acted like any 4-year-old would in such a formal situation. It was the most hilarious display of mischief by a politician&#8217;s son since Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s kid blew kisses to the crowd and pretended to take the oath of office when his father was sworn in as mayor of New York City.<\/p>\n<p><b>But whose idea was it to dress the kid like a summertime version of Little Lord Fauntleroy? An Easter Egg-colored suit with short pants, white socks and saddle shoes? Was that a tribute to John-John circa 1962?<\/b> That kid is going to be teased on a lot of playgrounds, even private school playgrounds, if he&#8217;s dressed like that in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This, from the token skinny guy on the Ebert and <i>?<\/i> show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Roeper: You probably read the stories or saw the footage of little John Roberts acting up as President Bush introduced John&#8217;s daddy, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. He wiggled and danced around, and generally acted like any 4-year-old would in such a formal situation. It was the most hilarious display of mischief [&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-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","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=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19495,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/19495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}