{"id":538,"date":"2005-10-05T02:05:15","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T06:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2005\/10\/how_to_talk_to_your_kid_about\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T02:05:15","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T06:05:15","slug":"how_to_talk_to_your_kid_about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2005\/10\/how_to_talk_to_your_kid_about\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO TALK TO YOUR KID ABOUT THE RED SOX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><B>ESPECIALLY IF YOU RESENTED JOCKS ALL YOUR LIFE<\/B> <BR><BR><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t know what it looks like to insiders, but to us plebes this past week felt like Bush went off the rails for real. OK, first: name your personal legal counsel to the Supreme Court, and make it an EARLY MORNING announcement to upstage the signing in of your CHIEF JUSTICE nominee. Then, give a major speech about terrorism, originally planned for 9\/11 last month, on a THURSDAY MORNING, so prime-timers will only see clips and reaction commentary. Here&#8217;s Ann Coulter: &#8220;Bush has no right to say &#8216;Trust me.&#8217; He was elected to represent the American people, not to be dictator for eight years&#8230;.&#8221; (I could link to her page, but I am not in the linking vein today.) That&#8217;s called &#8220;alienating your base.&#8221; Have Rove&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=F00613FE3E550C778CDDA00894DD404482\" target=\"_blank\">kidneys<\/A> taken over his brain? <\/A><br \/>\n<BR><BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPECIALLY IF YOU RESENTED JOCKS ALL YOUR LIFE Don&#8217;t know what it looks like to insiders, but to us plebes this past week felt like Bush went off the rails for real. OK, first: name your personal legal counsel to the Supreme Court, and make it an EARLY MORNING announcement to upstage the signing in [&hellip;]<\/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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}