{"id":2570,"date":"2005-08-03T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2018-02-11T19:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T01:06:49","slug":"one-businessman-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/03\/one-businessman-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"One Businessman Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this last autumn when it appeared in the <i>Washington Post<\/i> as an advertisement funded by one man, but here is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatiam.net\/\" target=\"_new\">You\u2019re a Republican???<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In today&#8217;s America, ask a growing number of high school and college students; their teachers and professors; the self-anointed media elite and\/or hard working men and women of all ethnicities, the question, &#8220;What is a Republican?&#8221;, and you\u2019ll be told &#8220;&#8230; a rich, greedy, egotistical individual, motivated only by money and the desire to accumulate more and more of it, at the expense of the environment \u2026 the working poor &#8230; .and all whom they exploit&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am a Republican &#8230; I am none of those things&#8230; and I don\u2019t know any Republicans who are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the litany of what Republicans are.  It&#8217;s our equivalent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/quotes\/sinclair.asp\" target=\"_new\">Gordon Sinclair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(This story has been confirmed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/soapbox\/whatiam.asp\" target=\"_new\">Snopes<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this last autumn when it appeared in the Washington Post as an advertisement funded by one man, but here is: You\u2019re a Republican??? In today&#8217;s America, ask a growing number of high school and college students; their teachers and professors; the self-anointed media elite and\/or hard working men and women of all ethnicities, [&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-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","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=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19463,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/19463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}