{"id":345,"date":"2004-12-23T22:41:30","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T20:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=345"},"modified":"2004-12-23T22:41:30","modified_gmt":"2004-12-23T20:41:30","slug":"texas-chainsaw-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Texas Chainsaw President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite writers, Walton Pantland, who writes <a href=\"http:\/\/redstarcoven.blogspot.com\/\">Red Star Coven<\/a>, has published a superb article on that old favourite of topics, the USA. Do yourselves a favour and read <a href=\"http:\/\/redstarcoven.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/return-of-texas-chainsaw-president.html\">Return of the Texas Chainsaw President<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some choice quotes from his article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The maniac redneck is back in power, and this time he didn&#8217;t steal the election<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The economy is fucked. The dollar has to fall. $2.73 trillion foreign debt&#8230; It won&#8217;t last. Start growing your own veggies.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>clearly, Americans need to get laid more. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>But there is a kind of willed stupidity in the national psyche, which I call &#8216;Forrest Gumpism &#8211; the idea that there is something pure and good about being too stupid to understand the world.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite writers, Walton Pantland, who writes Red Star Coven, has published a superb article on that old favourite of topics, the USA. Do yourselves a favour and read Return of the Texas Chainsaw President. Some choice quotes from his article: The maniac redneck is back in power, and this time he didn&#8217;t&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=345\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Chainsaw President<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-literature","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}