{"id":374,"date":"2004-10-20T00:22:54","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2009-02-02T00:25:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T15:25:25","slug":"the-next-governor-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"The next governor of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerve.com\/regulars\/lifeswork\/kinkyfriedman\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with the much ballyhooed next governor of Texas. This comment, in particular, had me in stitches:<\/p>\n<p><em>Just because I&#8217;ve been a bachelor all my life does not mean that the rumors that I&#8217;m gay are true. I&#8217;ve got affidavits from 2,500 sheep. By the way, I&#8217;m all for gay marriage. I think I was the first one to say that they should be just as miserable as everybody else. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The interview with Friedman is one of the more refreshing articles I have read in recent weeks. I raise my whisky to you, Mr. Friedman, and wish you the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading an interview with the much ballyhooed next governor of Texas. This comment, in particular, had me in stitches: Just because I&#8217;ve been a bachelor all my life does not mean that the rumors that I&#8217;m gay are true. I&#8217;ve got affidavits from 2,500 sheep. By the way, I&#8217;m all for gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}