{"id":197,"date":"2003-01-10T23:52:57","date_gmt":"2003-01-11T06:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/01\/10\/the-angry-republican\/"},"modified":"2003-01-10T23:52:57","modified_gmt":"2003-01-11T06:52:57","slug":"the-angry-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/01\/10\/the-angry-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"The Angry Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimmay and I went with Jeannette to the Caf\u00e9 Venus                 and Mars Bar, to celebrate one of Jeannette&#8217;s friend&#8217;s                 birthday. One of the people in the group was an angry Republican                 (self-professed). I&#8217;ve never met anyone so visibly angry                 with the world \u2013 I wonder if he had experienced a breakup                 a while ago, and became embittered and joined the Republican                 party. I attempted to diffuse him with non-partisan conversation,                 and that seemed to bring him down a bit. It&#8217;s been awhile               since I&#8217;ve met someone that tightly wound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/01\/10\/the-angry-republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimmay and I went with Jeannette to the Caf\u00e9 Venus and Mars Bar, to celebrate one of Jeannette&#8217;s friend&#8217;s birthday. One of the people in the group was an angry Republican (self-professed). I&#8217;ve never met anyone so visibly angry with the world \u2013 I wonder if he had experienced a breakup a while ago, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/01\/10\/the-angry-republican\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Angry Republican&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/01\/10\/the-angry-republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining","category-drink","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}