{"id":242,"date":"2002-12-11T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2002-12-11T16:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=242"},"modified":"2002-12-11T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2002-12-11T16:43:50","slug":"the-real-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"The Real Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trent Lott, as everyone knows, is a hair guy. But what sort of hair guy is he?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/images\/kerry_hair.jpg\" alt=\"Fly\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/images\/lott_hair.jpg\" alt=\"Not quite so fly\"><\/p>\n<p>On the left, the silky tresses of John Kerry (<b>D-Christophe<\/b>). On the right, the over-aerosoled helmet of Trent Lott (<b>R-Some guy with more than one name<\/b>). Note the grainy texture. The unbroken crescent across the center. The eerie near-symmetry about the X-axis. Ladies, which coif do you want to run your hands through? Is it even a contest?<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of room, God knows, for hair guys in the Senate. But unless the Republicans elect the #1 hair guy Majority Leader they shouldn&#8217;t elect a hair guy at all. The conclusion is ineluctable. Lott must go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trent Lott, as everyone knows, is a hair guy. But what sort of hair guy is he? On the left, the silky tresses of John Kerry (D-Christophe). On the right, the over-aerosoled helmet of Trent Lott (R-Some guy with more than one name). Note the grainy texture. The unbroken crescent across the center. The eerie <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=242' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}