{"id":124,"date":"1982-05-19T22:58:18","date_gmt":"1982-05-20T02:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=124"},"modified":"2009-10-19T23:02:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T03:02:47","slug":"a-visit-to-the-reagan-ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to the Reagan Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For a while, it seemed like every damn&#8217; time you turned around,<\/strong> either Time or Newsweek or the Washington <em>Post<\/em> or Parade Magazine or NBC was doing smarmy photo spreads and interviews with Reagan on his ranch &#8212; at least Reagan was smart enough to stick to sitting on a horse looking all manly and Presidential, unlike a certain Texas brush-clearing President we all know &#8212; and damn&#8217; near causing normal peoples&#8217; heads to explode from the sheer volume of aw-shucks down-home patriotism, feigned cowboy attitude, and religiosity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-125\" title=\"reaganranchpreview650w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/reaganranchpreview650w.jpg\" alt=\"reaganranchpreview650w\" width=\"650\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/reaganranchpreview650w.jpg 650w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/reaganranchpreview650w-150x117.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/reaganranchpreview650w-400x313.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/reaganranchpreview650w-500x392.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a public service, I presented through the Yipster Times\/Overthrow this undercover report on the real Reagan Ranch, not the folksy simulacrum presented for Time, Newsweek, Parade and People.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/gipperama\/reaganranch.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>pdf file, 4 pages,<\/strong><\/a> 323k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, it seemed like every damn&#8217; time you turned around, either Time or Newsweek or the Washington Post or Parade Magazine or NBC was doing smarmy photo spreads and interviews with Reagan on his ranch &#8212; at least Reagan was smart enough to stick to sitting on a horse looking all manly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[1455,1451],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-reagan-years","tag-media","tag-reagan-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}