{"id":14061,"date":"2012-05-01T17:55:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2012\/05\/01\/14061.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:03:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:03:47","slug":"passing-the-milestone-in-rever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2012\/05\/01\/passing-the-milestone-in-rever\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing the milestone in reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So here&#8217;s my question: is it wrong to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/04\/mitt-romneys-gay-spokesman-a-milestone-in-republican-politics\/256263\/\">this<\/a> funny?\n<blockquote><p>The recent hiring of Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney&#8217;s openly gay foreign-policy spokesman, represents a breakthrough in the world of Republican presidential campaigns.<\/blockquote>\n<p>Which would make the slightly-more-recent resignation of Mr. Grenell a&#8230; break<I>back<\/i> in the world of Republican presidential campaigns? Or is the funniest part when Molly Ball writes that &#8220;Some activists cautioned that Romney shouldn&#8217;t be given too much credit&#8221;? To Ms. Ball&#8217;s credit, her update is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/05\/romneys-gay-spokesman-so-much-for-that\/256615\/\">Romney&#8217;s Gay Spokesman: So Much for That<\/a>. Tho&#8217; I would say that the tone of the piece is not sufficiently shamefaced for being taken in so completely.\n<P>The correct answer to the question I started with is probably that it&#8217;s not wrong to find it funny, so long as I keep in mind that it isn&#8217;t funny at all.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger snickers to keep from sobbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19547,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061\/revisions\/19547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}