{"id":65,"date":"2004-09-03T14:12:53","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T14:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/03\/w-is-more-popular-than-kerry-with-dog-owners\/"},"modified":"2004-09-03T14:12:53","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T14:12:53","slug":"w-is-more-popular-than-kerry-with-dog-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/w-is-more-popular-than-kerry-with-dog-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;W. is more popular than Kerry with dog owners&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1205554\/posts\">Dear God&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film itself, the Bush dog Barney hitting the campaign trail, sounds amusing enough. But a Kerry dog called Fifi, replete with a beret? Oooh! Kerry speaks FRENCH! France is the most evil nation in the world!<\/p>\n<p>Call me stupid, but having a head of state who is able to converse in more than one language strikes me as a benefit? Bush&#8217;s vague grasp of Spanish is one of the few things that almost elicits admiration. Kerry is fluent in French, and halfway decent in Italian, if I recall correctly. This can surely only be a good thing?<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s off the point. The comments to this innocent enough little article (&#8220;Who says Republicans are stuffy and no fun!&#8221;) are a classic example of the apparent mindset and &#8220;sense of humour&#8221; of your average Republican voter:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WE [Republicans] are Red because we have American Blood flowing in our veins. They [Democrats] are Blue in deference to their European bluebloods.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear God&#8230; The film itself, the Bush dog Barney hitting the campaign trail, sounds amusing enough. But a Kerry dog called Fifi, replete with a beret? Oooh! Kerry speaks FRENCH! France is the most evil nation in the world! Call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/w-is-more-popular-than-kerry-with-dog-owners\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}