{"id":5258,"date":"2012-04-25T08:01:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2012-04-25T08:01:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:01:45","slug":"the-gop-spin-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/the-gop-spin-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gop-Spin Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying out a new feature on The X Blog. I give you a news story and you provide the Republican Spin for the story. <\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s story, some Pabst Blue Ribbon swigging hipster spilled frozen yogurt on the President of the United States.  From the Washington Post: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During an unscheduled stop at a restaurant and bar here late Tuesday, President Obama ordered a pizza, shook hands, posed for pictures, bought some t-shirts \u2014 and got some yogurt spilled on his pants by an enthusiastic fan. &#8230; On his way to a speech to about 10,000 people at the University of Colorado, the president wiped his pants clean with a towel, made a quip about the Secret Service and said to the woman responsible for the spill: &#8220;Getting yogurt on the president, you&#8217;ve got a story to tell.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Go &#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying out a new feature on The X Blog. I give you a news story and you provide the Republican Spin for the story. In today&#8217;s story, some Pabst Blue Ribbon swigging hipster spilled frozen yogurt on the President of the United States. From the Washington Post: During an unscheduled stop at a restaurant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/the-gop-spin-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Gop-Spin Game<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[289],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1mO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}