{"id":4891,"date":"2016-08-09T22:53:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T05:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4891"},"modified":"2018-12-20T18:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T01:38:17","slug":"sticks-and-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4891","title":{"rendered":"Sticks And Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the disastrous Trump campaign, we&#8217;re given on a daily basis such a plethora of gaffes and blunders to choose from, the satire just writes itself. Take for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/07\/29\/mike-pence-says-name-calling-has-no-place-in-politics-as-trump-attacks-crooked-hillary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Pence recently stating that name calling has no place in politics<\/a>; this from the Vice Presidential candidate of a man who&#8217;s made his living for the last year calling his opponents childish nick names like Lyin&#8217; Ted, Little Marco and Low Energy Jeb Bush. We think ol&#8217; Puritan Pants is a bit irony impaired.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4900\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumppencenamecallingpolitics2.jpg\" alt=\"Irony impaired GOP President and Vice President candidates, Trumpy McSmallHands and Puritan Pants blather on about how name cailling has no place in politics.\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumppencenamecallingpolitics2.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumppencenamecallingpolitics2-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irony impaired GOP President and Vice President candidates, Trumpy McSmallHands and Puritan Pants blather on about how name cailling has no place in politics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the disastrous Trump campaign, we&#8217;re given on a daily basis such a plethora of gaffes and blunders to choose from, the satire just writes itself. Take for instance, Mike Pence recently stating that name calling has no place in politics; this from the Vice Presidential candidate of a man who&#8217;s made his living &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sticks And Stones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,1126,60,8,68,85,3,1853,198],"tags":[689,252,69,686,22,783,147,70,9,154,1261,1397,21,1063,98,596,1381,188,19,47,48,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6442,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions\/6442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}