{"id":6360,"date":"2010-05-10T13:21:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T18:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6360"},"modified":"2011-11-14T22:53:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:53:13","slug":"where-are-the-vapors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/where-are-the-vapors\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are The Vapors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a sweepstakes packet from <em>Readers Digest<\/em> today:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/treasurersdepartment.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/treasurersdepartment.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"A check from the treasurer's department!\"><br \/><em><font size=\"1\">Click for full size<\/font><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I want to know is where are the news outlets and lefty blogs on this one?  The GOP sends out a fundraising mailer which really isn&#8217;t so much a survey as a fundraising vehicle with the word <strong>CENSUS<\/strong> on it, and everyone foams at the mouth about the mean Republicans trying to trick its previous contributors into contributing again or something, but here you have a stodgy old magazine trying to entice senior citizens to enter their contest by mimicking an IRS tax refund, and we get nothing.<\/p>\n<p>So, gentle reader, I will leave it to you to gauge whether the people who shriek like a struck Porkins are entirely earnest in their concern for the gulls beneath them or if they simply don&#8217;t know anyone who subscribes to <em>Readers Digest<\/em> to see what the old people are reading (like they contribute or sign up for GOP communications to see what the ENEMIES are saying and doing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a sweepstakes packet from Readers Digest today: Click for full size What I want to know is where are the news outlets and lefty blogs on this one? The GOP sends out a fundraising mailer which really isn&#8217;t so much a survey as a fundraising vehicle with the word CENSUS on it, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,29,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazines","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360","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=6360"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10450,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions\/10450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}