{"id":5011,"date":"2016-10-03T15:26:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2016-10-03T22:02:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T05:02:50","slug":"the-stoner-that-would-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5011","title":{"rendered":"The Stoner Who Would Be President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if the joke that is Con-a-thon 2016 couldn&#8217;t get any stranger, the once respectable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/geoffrey-r-stone\/the-chicago-tribune-and-t_b_12290890.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune announced this past week that they&#8217;re going to endorse not Donald Trump&#8230; not Hillary Clinton&#8230; but Libertarian candidate and stoner extraordinaire, Gary &#8216;Dude&#8217; Johnson<\/a>. We&#8217;ve gained a little, tiny bit of respect lately for the Arizona Republic and the San Diego Tribune for breaking with tradition and endorsing the only sane choice for President, Democrat Hillary Clinton. But come on Chicago Tribune. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/09\/29\/495896880\/watch-unable-to-name-a-foreign-leader-gary-johnson-has-another-aleppo-moment\" target=\"_blank\">This man had another &#8216;Aleppo&#8217; moment last week on Chris Matthews when he couldn&#8217;t name a world leader<\/a>. We think the people at the Trib may be ex-High Times employees and may be smoking the same thing as the &#8216;Dude&#8217;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5015\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garyjohsonstonerendorsechicagotribune.jpg\" alt=\"Libertarian candidate Gary 'Dude' Johnson says that Captain America is a gnarly world leader much to the approval of the stoners at the Chicago Tribune, who endorse him totally for President.\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garyjohsonstonerendorsechicagotribune.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garyjohsonstonerendorsechicagotribune-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The stoners over at the Chicago Tribune think that Libertarian candidate Gary &#8216;Dude&#8217; Johnson would be a totally awesome choice for President.<\/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>As if the joke that is Con-a-thon 2016 couldn&#8217;t get any stranger, the once respectable Chicago Tribune announced this past week that they&#8217;re going to endorse not Donald Trump&#8230; not Hillary Clinton&#8230; but Libertarian candidate and stoner extraordinaire, Gary &#8216;Dude&#8217; Johnson. We&#8217;ve gained a little, tiny bit of respect lately for the Arizona Republic and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Stoner Who Would Be President&#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":[61,1126,60,8,3,35],"tags":[689,1429,1442,155,22,107,1440,1428,9,1446,1445,332,1441,21,98,596,235,19,805,694,1443,1444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011"}],"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=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5018,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}