{"id":4293,"date":"2008-08-29T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T22:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4293"},"modified":"2008-08-29T14:58:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T22:58:19","slug":"barack-obama-pretends-to-be-julius-caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4293","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama Pretends To Be Julius Caesar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2198956\/\">Jack Shafer writes<\/a>: &quot;Grandiose visuals&mdash;I&#8217;m thinking of those aired last night as Barack Obama pretended to be Julius Caesar at the Colosseum, collecting accolades from the people after smashing the Gauls&mdash;short-circuit even the most jaded voters&#8217; cognitive functions. The only way John McCain will be able to match the dazzling production&mdash;fireworks and 80,000 screaming supporters&mdash;will be to perform human sacrifice on the stage as he accepts his party&#8217;s nomination.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Shafer writes: &quot;Grandiose visuals&mdash;I&#8217;m thinking of those aired last night as Barack Obama pretended to be Julius Caesar at the Colosseum, collecting accolades from the people after smashing the Gauls&mdash;short-circuit even the most jaded voters&#8217; cognitive functions. The only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4293\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569],"tags":[30239,11935,10377,30002,11934],"class_list":["post-4293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","tag-barack-obama","tag-human-sacrifice","tag-jack-shafer","tag-john-mccain","tag-julius-caesar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}