{"id":105,"date":"2005-01-04T05:08:51","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T13:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/lightning-round\/"},"modified":"2005-01-04T05:08:51","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T13:08:51","slug":"lightning-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/lightning-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click it and move on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonebrew.com\/cool\/articles\/video\/forefront2004\/index.html\">More<\/a> on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonebrew.com\">favorite brewery<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/EDUCATION\/01\/03\/school.dispute.ap\/\">What happens<\/a> when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewbush.com\">someone<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/02\/20040224-2.html\">decides to advocate discrimination<\/a> as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,134442,00.html\">campaign issue<\/a> (very fitting that Fox News is one of the first hits I got when googling &#8220;bush gay marriage campaign&#8221;).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was going to stop with two quick links, but something funny happened whilst I was doing so. I was trying to find something on Shrub&#8217;s campaign site about the &#8220;defense of marriage&#8221; or &#8220;moral values&#8221;, but his campaign site now redirects to the GOP site. Searching through that site, I can&#8217;t seem to find a damn thing about it. Hmmmm&#8230;could it be that he raised the issue to motivate a particular part of his base and then dropped it upon re-election so as not to alienate another larger portion of the population? If it was so important, why don&#8217;t I find it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.com\/GOPAgenda\/\">The Agenda<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click it and move on: More on my favorite brewery. What happens when someone decides to advocate discrimination as a campaign issue (very fitting that Fox News is one of the first hits I got when googling &#8220;bush gay marriage campaign&#8221;). I was going to stop with two quick links, but something funny happened whilst <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/lightning-round\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-8-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-1H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}