{"id":3010,"date":"2008-08-06T05:32:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T10:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2008-08-06T05:32:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T10:32:47","slug":"cult-of-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3010","title":{"rendered":"Cult Of Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year on February 6th I do a tongue-in-cheek &#8220;Reagan&#8217;s Birthday&#8221; celebration.\u00a0 Oh, we do do a special dinner at home, and I do talk about the Cold War, the demise of which President Reagan was the primary architect.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s just being a good parent.<\/p>\n<p>And while I make noise about wanting to make Reagan&#8217;s Birthday (formerly &#8220;Reaganmas&#8221;) a national holiday &#8211; c&#8217;mon.\u00a0 Even Reagan wouldn&#8217;t want that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tongue, in every case, is lodged firmly in cheek.<\/p>\n<p>Because people who treat their leaders like subjects of cultish adoration?\u00a0 They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/politicalagenda\/2008\/08\/04\/2825\/obamas_birthday_spurs_house_parties_around_the_state#69-2825\">just plain wierd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wondering what to give a presidential candidate on his birthday? Minnesota supporters of Barack Obama are celebrating their guy&#8217;s 47th birthday today with &#8220;house parties&#8221; across the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I sit trying to write this, a lot of snarky comebacks suggest themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>None of them are any better than the vision of the &#8220;events&#8221; themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year on February 6th I do a tongue-in-cheek &#8220;Reagan&#8217;s Birthday&#8221; celebration.\u00a0 Oh, we do do a special dinner at home, and I do talk about the Cold War, the demise of which President Reagan was the primary architect.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s just being a good parent. And while I make noise about wanting to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}