{"id":5451,"date":"2012-12-31T17:16:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/beltway-kabuki\/"},"modified":"2012-12-31T17:16:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:16:15","slug":"beltway-kabuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/beltway-kabuki\/","title":{"rendered":"Beltway Kabuki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been several years since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/author\/200428\/bio\">Mark Steyn<\/a> coined the term &#8220;<em>Beltway Kabuki<\/em>&#8221; to describe the liberal shenanigans of Washington politics. When I read the piece Steyn wrote with that term, I decided to add it as a category type for this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Michael Ramirez captured Steyn&#8217;s sentiment in this cartoon. Enjoy the cartoon and we wish you a Happy and Prosperous New Year in spite of Beltway Kabuki.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/kabuki.jpg' title='Beltway Kabuki'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/kabuki.jpg' alt='Beltway Kabuki' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been several years since Mark Steyn coined the term &#8220;Beltway Kabuki&#8221; to describe the liberal shenanigans of Washington politics. When I read the piece&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beltway-kabuki","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","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=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}