{"id":67479,"date":"2018-07-23T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67479"},"modified":"2018-07-22T08:33:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:33:32","slug":"is-this-the-mpla-i-thought-it-was-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67479","title":{"rendered":"Is This The MPLA, I Thought It Was The USA&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Rotten &#8211; lead singer of the Sex Pistols &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/m.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/mar\/27\/johnny-rotten-defends-donald-trump-slams-left-wing\/\">joins the Velvet Underground&#8217;s Mo Tucker among punk icons supporting Trump:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat I dislike is the left-wing media in America are trying to smear the bloke as a racist, and that\u2019s completely not true,\u201d the 61-year-old said. \u201cThere\u2019s many, many problems with him as a human being, but he\u2019s not that, and there just might be a chance something good will come out of that situation, because he terrifies politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/john-lydon\/\">Mr. Lydon<\/a>\u00a0said Mr. Trump is like a \u201cpolitical Sex Pistol\u201d whose purpose is to rattle the status quo. After co-host Piers Morgan described Mr. Trump as \u201cthe archetypal anti-establishment character,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/m.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/john-lydon\/\">Mr. Lydon<\/a>\u00a0added: \u201cDare I say, a possible friend.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in the glory days of blogging, one of our sayings was &#8220;conservative is the new punk&#8221;.\u00a0 In our society, the way it is today, standing for a fairly timeless establishment against an utterly temporal one certainly qualifies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Rotten &#8211; lead singer of the Sex Pistols &#8211; joins the Velvet Underground&#8217;s Mo Tucker among punk icons supporting Trump: \u201cWhat I dislike is the left-wing media in America are trying to smear the bloke as a racist, and that\u2019s completely not true,\u201d the 61-year-old said. \u201cThere\u2019s many, many problems with him as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67479","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=67479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67480,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67479\/revisions\/67480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}