{"id":16766,"date":"2012-12-24T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T17:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16766"},"modified":"2012-12-26T23:51:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T04:51:02","slug":"deck-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16766\/deck-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Deck Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with the Christmas theme (from the post below), conservatives of a certain age love to quote the wisdom from the comic-strip Pogo that &#8220;we have met the enemy, and he is us.&#8221; On Christmas, it might be better to quote Pogo&#8217;s version of a famous Christmas carol:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deck us all with Boston Charlie<\/p>\n<p>Walla walla wash, and kalamazoo<\/p>\n<p>Nora&#8217;s freezin&#8217; on the trolley<\/p>\n<p>Squalor dollar cauliflower, alle-garoo<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t we know archaic barrel<\/p>\n<p>Lullabye, lilla-boy, Louisville Lou.<\/p>\n<p>Trolley Molly don&#8217;t love Harold<\/p>\n<p>Boola boola, Pensacoola, Hullabaloo!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Try singing that song at a family party this week, especially if you can&#8217;t carry a tune, and the enemy you meet will indeed be you.<\/p>\n<p>Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with the Christmas theme (from the post below), conservatives of a certain age love to quote the wisdom from the comic-strip Pogo that &#8220;we have met the enemy, and he is us.&#8221; On Christmas, it might be better to quote Pogo&#8217;s version of a famous Christmas carol: Deck us all with Boston Charlie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16773,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions\/16773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}