{"id":7517,"date":"2004-01-29T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-30T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/29\/7517\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T15:06:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:06:47","slug":"7517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/29\/7517\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, All The Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110004620\" target=\"new\">Taranto<\/a> leads to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/president\/articles\/2004\/01\/29\/buoyant_kerry_wins_key_endorsements\/\" target=\"new\"><i>Boston Globe<\/i> story<\/a> about &#8220;Little John&#8221; Kerry.  Little John&#8217;s been lacing up the skates to play hockey in New Hampshire and soon Michigan to show he&#8217;s one of the guys.  Since Missourians are not hockey fans&#8211;the St. Louis Blues, the River Otters, the Springfield Spirit, and other teams notwithstanding&#8211;John Kerry&#8217;s willing to do what it takes to prove he&#8217;s down with us homies in the Mid<b>West<\/b>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I guess I&#8217;ll ride a bucking bronco or a bull or something,&#8221; Kerry joked. &#8220;I&#8217;m game. Whatever they got.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What the johnk do we look like to this coastal freaking cosmopolitan liberal botullism-imbibing nutbar?  A <b>bucking bronco or a bull or something<\/b>?<\/p>\n<p>I am speechless.  I have nothing snarky to say.  He didn&#8217;t even invoke the <i>Missouri mule<\/i>.  What we all like here is a ro-d-o!  Excuse me while I go punch a cow.<\/p>\n<p>Mizzou, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, California, it&#8217;s all the same to Massachusetts-area dilettante senators.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing I am not reading more of this damn Boston paper&#8217;s story, with its allusions to Jean Carnahan as a real Senator or that St. Louis could shake up <b><i>800<\/i><\/b> people when brought together by St. Louis mayor Frankie Slayer and the entire Democrat machine to greet Little John, or I might really get irritated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taranto leads to Boston Globe story about &#8220;Little John&#8221; Kerry. Little John&#8217;s been lacing up the skates to play hockey in New Hampshire and soon Michigan to show he&#8217;s one of the guys. Since Missourians are not hockey fans&#8211;the St. Louis Blues, the River Otters, the Springfield Spirit, and other teams notwithstanding&#8211;John Kerry&#8217;s willing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517","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=7517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22317,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions\/22317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}