{"id":858,"date":"2004-10-09T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T18:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/10\/from_scowl_to_screech\/"},"modified":"2013-12-11T18:54:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T23:54:30","slug":"from_scowl_to_screech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/10\/from_scowl_to_screech.html","title":{"rendered":"FROM SCOWL TO SCREECH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><IMG src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/images\/MEATLESS.jpg\" width=334><\/p>\n<p>In last night&#8217;s second presidential debate, the Ninny in Chief once again demonstrated<br \/>\nhis congenital inadequacies as a statesman, much less as a debater. Alessandra Stanley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/09\/politics\/campaign\/09tube.html?oref=login\">read my mind<\/a> in her description of him. Whether he&#8217;s snickering, winking, or getting hot under the collar, he&#8217;s just plain irritating. The guy&#8217;s a complete jerk. Imagine the shit Laura Bush must have to put up with being married to him.<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Disclaimer:<\/STRONG> John Kerry&#8217;s use of the term <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2004\/10\/08\/politics\/main648302.shtml\">&#8220;straight up&#8221;<\/a> was sweet. But I take no credit for it, nor have I, uhm, let it influence my opinion.<\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Caption:&nbsp;<\/STRONG>&nbsp;I have no idea what Hammond Guthrie&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/emptymirrorbooks.com\/thirdpage\/meatlessSt.Louis.html\">&#8220;Meatless in St. Louis&#8221;<\/a> means. But I like it. My guess is it has something to do with a lack of substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last night&#8217;s second presidential debate, the Ninny in Chief once again demonstrated his congenital inadequacies as a statesman, much less as a debater. Alessandra Stanley read my mind in her description of him. Whether he&#8217;s snickering, winking, or getting hot under the collar, he&#8217;s just plain irritating. The guy&#8217;s a complete jerk. Imagine the [&hellip;]<\/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-858","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-dQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}