{"id":1271,"date":"2008-04-16T08:56:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1271"},"modified":"2008-04-16T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T19:02:44","slug":"id-like-a-shot-of-populism-on-the-rocks-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1271","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d Like A Shot Of Populism On The Rocks Please&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that I still don&#8217;t have my college degree and that I struggled to make ends meet for most of my life working various low paying blue collar jobs, I suspect I could never pass myself off as &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/defining_populism_down.php\">a man of the people<\/a>&quot;, were it not for the shot of &quot;Bartender&#8217;s Special&quot; a very foxy bartender gave me once at Larry&#8217;s Lounge in D.C..&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/memweb.newsguy.com\/~bgarrett\/hrc_drink.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>To run for president, you need to drink a lot&#8230;<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>I think it had Southern Comfort in it, which automatically gives me extra bonus populist points.&nbsp; Which is good, because I wouldn&#8217;t have touched that glass with a ten foot pool if I hadn&#8217;t been completely twitterpated by the guy who handed it to me, and having a drink with a cute guy in a gay bar penalizes me severely on populist points.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that I still don&#8217;t have my college degree and that I struggled to make ends meet for most of my life working various low paying blue collar jobs, I suspect I could never pass myself off as &quot;a man of the people&quot;, were it not for the shot of &quot;Bartender&#8217;s Special&quot; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[53,34,19,46],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-feckless-democrats","tag-george-bushs-america","tag-the-jackass-chronicles","tag-the-kultar-kampf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}