{"id":862,"date":"2004-10-10T07:41:57","date_gmt":"2004-10-10T14:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/10\/it_is_as_it_was\/"},"modified":"2004-10-10T07:41:57","modified_gmt":"2004-10-10T14:41:57","slug":"it_is_as_it_was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/10\/it_is_as_it_was.html","title":{"rendered":"IT IS AS IT WAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Over the weekend James Wolcott offered l<EM>es mots justes<\/EM>&nbsp;on the second<br \/>\ndebate:&nbsp;&#8220;George Bush looked like a <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/jameswolcott.com\/archives\/2004\/10\/empty_volcano.php\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>blister about to pop<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. Loud, mouthy, swaggering, interested<br \/>\nonly in hearing himself lay down the law, he behaved like a verbally abusive husband. Not a<br \/>\nwifebeater but a browbeater with a bar-fighter&#8217;s grin.&#8221; As mentioned here earlier, <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20041001.shtml#88725\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>imagine the shit Laura Bush must have to put up<br \/>\nwith<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend James Wolcott offered les mots justes&nbsp;on the second debate:&nbsp;&#8220;George Bush looked like a blister about to pop. Loud, mouthy, swaggering, interested only in hearing himself lay down the law, he behaved like a verbally abusive husband. Not a wifebeater but a browbeater with a bar-fighter&#8217;s grin.&#8221; As mentioned here earlier, 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-862","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-dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","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=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}