{"id":1508,"date":"2007-08-05T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T19:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:16:07","slug":"nothing-stands-between-me-and-my-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1508\/nothing-stands-between-me-and-my-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Nothing stands between me and my vacation.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats cave!  <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FpoliticsNews%2FidUSN0328188520070805%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26rpc%3D22%26sp%3Dtrue\">Democrats cave!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Duh.  Well, of course they do.  It seems to be what Democrats do best is yield to pressure because they don&#8217;t want to look like they&#8217;re, uh, uhm&#8230;I know, they don&#8217;t want to look like they&#8217;re standing in the way of Bush &#038; Co.<\/p>\n<p>What mantra do they practice before the mirror each morning?<\/p>\n<p><i>It&#8217;s not my fault!  He made me do it!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>How were they made to do it?<\/p>\n<p>They wanted their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2007\/8\/5\/14322\/22121\">summer vacation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you&#8217;re still wondering how high the personal sacrifices will go for sake of some ideals.<\/p>\n<p>These are the kind of people who say, &#8220;You&#8217;re an idealist,&#8221; and make it sound like something really dirty and contemptible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>  And icky.  They make it sound icky, too.  And irresponsible.  Laughable.  And lame.  That, too.  And childish, as in irresponsibly, stupidly childish.  And stupid.  As in, &#8220;You don&#8217;t understand politics.  Now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I just bought myself a heaping serving of summer vacation.  Get lost, you childish, lame, laughable, annoying, ridiculous idealist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Site Search Tags:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/index.php?s=bush&#038;co\" rel=\"tag\">bush&#038;co<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/index.php?s=\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats cave! Democrats cave! Duh. Well, of course they do. It seems to be what Democrats do best is yield to pressure because they don&#8217;t want to look like they&#8217;re, uh, uhm&#8230;I know, they don&#8217;t want to look like they&#8217;re standing in the way of Bush &#038; Co. What mantra do they practice before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[426],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}