{"id":212,"date":"2008-04-14T16:02:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2008-04-14T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:02:35","slug":"now_hear_this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Now hear this:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had it.  HAD IT.  Spare me any more talk about elitists or small towns or anything remotely close to it.  Nobody &#8211; NOBODY &#8211; not ONE SINGLE F-ING MEMBER of the United States Senate has ANY standing to talk as if they&#8217;re some salt-of-the-earth defender of the sainted sons of the soil, manning the barricades against the horrible awful big-city slick-talking wheeler-dealers who are out to sucker the hayseeds.<br \/>\nJohn Rogers said it <a href = \"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/farm-fetish.html\">better than I ever will<\/a> so go read it there.  Meanwhile, I will nick one quote:<br \/>\n&#8220;I am just, I guess, well and truly tired of being told what &#8220;Middle America&#8221; wants, when Middle America is my age and lives in a goddam city, just like I have for my entire life.&#8221;<br \/>\nArlington, Virginia, is America.  Manhattan? America. Los Angeles? San Francisco?  Silicon Valley?  AMERICA, and don&#8217;t you !-ing forget it.  Anybody who seriously wants to spend 2008 selling the old &#8220;real America&#8221; trope needs to cut that shit out with a quickness, because I. Will. Cut. Your. Ass.  I mean it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had it. HAD IT. Spare me any more talk about elitists or small towns or anything remotely close to it. Nobody &#8211; NOBODY &#8211; not ONE SINGLE F-ING MEMBER of the United States Senate has ANY standing to talk as if they&#8217;re some salt-of-the-earth defender of the sainted sons of the soil, manning &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Now hear this:&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}