{"id":1586,"date":"2007-08-13T18:20:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T01:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2007\/08\/vacation_interruptus_1\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T18:20:24","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T01:20:24","slug":"vacation_interruptus_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2007\/08\/vacation_interruptus_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Interruptus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2004\/04\/hes_our_calvin.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Straight Up&#8217;s Calvin Trillin<\/strong><\/font><\/a> offers this comment on today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kathleen-reardon\/hey-karl-would-a-more-h_b_60171.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>White House resignation<\/strong><\/font><\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118698747711695773.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"The President With His Head Up His Ass (left) and his brain\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/graphics\/2007\/08\/13\/wrove.jpg\" width=180 align=left border=0 \/><\/a>\n<pr><\/pr>\n<pr><\/pr>\n<pr><\/pr>\n<pr><\/pr>\n<pr><\/pr>\n<pr><\/pr>\n<pr><\/pr>\n<pr><\/pr>\n<i><strong>BODY POLITIC<\/strong><br \/>\nFarewell to Bush&#8217;s brain, Karl Rove,<br \/>\nWhose loss will never drain us;<br \/>\nNow when do we wipe away Dick Cheney,<br \/>\nThe boss&#8217;s raging anus?<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2004\/04\/hes_our_calvin.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8212; Leon Freilich<\/strong><\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/08172007\/watch3.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>watch Bill Moyers&#8217;s beautiful kiss-off<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, delivered on Aug. 17:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Karl Rove figured out a long time ago that the way to take an intellectually incurious draft-averse naughty playboy in a flight jacket with chewing tobacco in his back pocket and make him governor of Texas, was to sell him as God&#8217;s anointed in a state where preachers and televangelists outnumber even oil derricks and jack rabbits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just for starters. Has anybody said it better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House resignation: &#8212; Leon Freilich Postscript: Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-pA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}