{"id":3354,"date":"2006-10-04T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2017-12-14T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:05:53","slug":"those-generic-marauding-political-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/04\/those-generic-marauding-political-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Generic Marauding Political Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story in the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> has a headline that describes the hooliganism at a political event: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/metroeast\/story\/C8C8D705CA77513F862571FC00627109?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Madison County political fundraiser leads to brawl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The lead describes some of the mayhem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A brawl erupted hours after a political fundraiser ended for Madison County Treasurer Fred Bathon when his son punched a prominent funeral home director, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Bathon punched Mike Weber, owner of Weber Funeral Home, several times in the face at Rusty\u2019s in Edwardsville, said Police Chief David Bopp.<\/p>\n<p>The fight was sparked by Weber\u2019s refusal to place a political sign supporting Fred Bathon outside his business, sources said today. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never mind, gentle reader, this is a <i>generic<\/i> young political activist.  It could have happened to anyone, much like the political activist adult children who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmind.com\/mt-test\/archives\/015905.html\" target=\"_new\">slash tires on election day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But if you <i>must<\/i> know, gentle reader, the last line of the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> story identifies, for trivia&#8217;s sake:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fred Bathon is seeking re-election as county treasurer. He is being opposed by Republican Kurt Prenzler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All indirectly-like, see?  The parent of this political activist is opposed by a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Could be a Libertarian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a headline that describes the hooliganism at a political event: Madison County political fundraiser leads to brawl. The lead describes some of the mayhem: A brawl erupted hours after a political fundraiser ended for Madison County Treasurer Fred Bathon when his son punched a prominent funeral home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","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=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18522,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/18522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}