{"id":3251,"date":"2010-01-19T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T00:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/santa-vs-the-government\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T00:14:08","slug":"santa-vs-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/santa-vs-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa vs. the Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/calvin.jpg' title='calvin.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/calvin.jpg' alt='calvin.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calvin_and_Hobbes\">Calvin and Hobbes<\/a>: Calvin&#8217;s impeccable logic reveals the mindset of the Congress and Administration in Washington. One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/calvinandhobbes\/2010\/01\/19\/\">comments<\/a> under this comic strip notes &#8220;the elves take kickbacks and give them to the big guy.&#8221; Another says &#8220;Is he talkin&#8217; about Santa or Obama?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Calvin&#8217;s right. Where does that leave our kids and grandkids?<\/p>\n<p>Note that <strong>Bill Watterson<\/strong>, Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist, created this strip twelve years ago during the Clinton Administration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin&#8217;s impeccable logic reveals the mindset of the Congress and Administration in Washington. One of the comments under this comic strip notes &#8220;the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beltway-kabuki","category-humor","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}