{"id":2733,"date":"2019-05-31T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2019-05-31T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:30:10","slug":"white-house-immolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2733","title":{"rendered":"White House Immolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/donkeyburning\/donkeyburning.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/donkeyburning\/donkeyburning650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"985\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a tragic revival of an old protest tradition,<\/strong> a man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/460574-man-fire-immolation-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">set himself on fire<\/a> near the White House this week.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, this somehow put me in mind of the Democratic Party&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/22\/us\/politics\/joe-bidens-role-in-90s-crime-law-could-haunt-any-presidential-bid.html\" target=\"_blank\">insistence<\/a> on trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3713264\/joe-biden-stephanie-carter-shoulder-rub\/\" target=\"_blank\">foist<\/a> Joe <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/02\/joe-biden-is-damned-by-his-own-harassment-standard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biden<\/a> onto progressive voters \u2013 which, of course, would be their biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/retropolis\/wp\/2017\/11\/24\/rewatching-joe-bidens-disastrous-anita-hill-hearing-a-sexual-harassment-inquistion\/?noredirect=on\" target=\"_blank\">debacle<\/a> since the 2016 debacle, and a true <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/05\/15\/joe-biden-iraq-war-vote-1322914\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;hold my beer&#8221;<\/a> moment for the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;16 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/donkeyburning\/donkeyburning.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.2mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a tragic revival of an old protest tradition, a man set himself on fire near the White House this week. And yes, this somehow put me in mind of the Democratic Party&#8217;s insistence on trying to foist Joe Biden onto progressive voters \u2013 which, of course, would be their biggest debacle since the 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[958,7,74,20,10,132],"tags":[281,985,984],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-elections","category-environment","category-health-care","category-media","category-party-animals","tag-white-house","tag-joe-biden","tag-self-immolation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","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=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}