{"id":112,"date":"2004-06-09T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/09\/scary-thought-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2005-07-14T00:19:38","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T15:19:38","slug":"scary-thought-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/09\/scary-thought-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary Thought of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing really new with this one, but it just hit me today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/000378.html\">Reminiscing about Bonzo<\/a> and his ruthlessly opportunistic career (or how to slide from union leader to strike buster in less that 10 years), I realized all of a sudden that he was only the first one in a line of <a href=\"http:\/\/everything2.com\/index.pl?node_id=41249\" target=\"_blank\">Mediocre Actors Turned Conservative Republican Governors of California<\/a>&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>And for a second, I had some apocalyptic vision of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tps.wz.cz\/galerie\/Arnold13.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><i>him<\/i><\/a> ever getting closer to the Presidency of the United-States than he was when he married Jackie&#8217;s niece&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks God for that stupid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rapidimmigration.com\/usa\/1_eng_civics_less2.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">born-American-citizen requirement<\/a>&#8230; I can breathe now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Update:<\/b> This week&#8217;s edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tps.wz.cz\/galerie\/Arnold13.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">the Onion<\/a> has the best headline, ever:<\/i><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><b>Reagan&#8217;s Body Dies<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Not-so-exclusive &#8220;Mediocre Actor Turned Conservative Republican Governor of California&#8221; Club&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-ranting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}