{"id":793,"date":"2004-08-26T04:26:36","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T11:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/08\/wishing_it_were_not_so\/"},"modified":"2004-08-26T04:26:36","modified_gmt":"2004-08-26T11:26:36","slug":"wishing_it_were_not_so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/08\/wishing_it_were_not_so.html","title":{"rendered":"WISHING IT WERE NOT SO"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend writes:<\/P>
\n


\n

Was one of Kerry’s wounds to a vital kernel of the frontal lobe? He and the
\nfeckless fuckers in his braintrust are handing the country to the insects, and those hungry critters
\nwill devour what little of value remains. Quite an achievement. Maybe another medal for the chest
\nof a man with the jawbone and the heart of an ass.
\n

<\/P>
\n

— Thine, Terry Dactyl<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

The formidable Mr. Dactyl apparently agrees with what the redoubtable Kevin Phillips said in
\nthe last paragraph of REPORT FROM THE LAND OF
\nIS<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> in May: “If Kerry wants to be stamped second-rate he can keep on being a
\nstiff. He’ll join Dukakis and Gore. But if Kerry loses, historians will have to put him in a category
\nnot invented yet.”<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend writes: Was one of Kerry’s wounds to a vital kernel of the frontal lobe? He and the feckless fuckers in his braintrust are handing the country to the insects, and those hungry critters will devour what little of value remains. Quite an achievement. Maybe another medal for the chest of a man with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-793","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-cN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}