{"id":86,"date":"2005-11-01T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2005-12-15T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T19:41:50","slug":"the-flim-flam-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/11\/01\/the-flim-flam-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flim Flam Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/november\/flimflam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/november\/flim.jpg\" class=\"left\" \/><\/a>If your favorite issue isn&#8217;t at the top of the news, create a diversion to draw attention away from real issues while you cheat at the game at hand. With the nation contemplating the new SCOTUS nominee, call a closed session to bring their attention back to Iraq, Scooter, Karl and the Veep.<\/p>\n<p>Flim Flam: n.  1. Nonsense; humbug.  2. <strong>A deception<\/strong>; <strong>a swindle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: After watching the news this evening, I&#8217;m convinced that <strong>Harry Reid<\/strong>, <strong>Chuck Shumer<\/strong> and <strong>Dick Durbin<\/strong> are all accomplished <em>flim-flammers<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your story isn&#8217;t at the top of the news, create a diversion to draw attention away from real issues while you cheat at the game at hand. Flim Flam:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}