{"id":747,"date":"2011-01-28T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=747"},"modified":"2011-01-28T17:36:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T22:36:22","slug":"sotu-2011-analysis-ponies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"SOTU 2011 Analysis: Ponies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><em>Really, gang&#8230; all you need to know to understand this year&#8217;s State Of The Union is: <strong>ponies!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/ponies\/ponies.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/ponies\/ponies550x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, while I&#8217;m at it&#8230; am I the only one who watched the part of the speech where Obama gets all jazzed up about all the amazingly awesome fantastically innovative technological wonderfulness Americans have been capable of and thought for a moment that I was watching a segment of <em>Oprah&#8217;s Favorite Things?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>11x12in grayscale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/ponies\/ponies.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">medium-res jpg image,<\/a><\/strong> 544kb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At <em>For Want Of A Nail: <\/em><\/strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/forwantofanail.com\/2011\/01\/its-hard-to-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s Hard to Watch Your Speech When Our Power Has Been Disconnected, Sir&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, gang&#8230; all you need to know to understand this year&#8217;s State Of The Union is: ponies! And, while I&#8217;m at it&#8230; am I the only one who watched the part of the speech where Obama gets all jazzed up about all the amazingly awesome fantastically innovative technological wonderfulness Americans have been capable of 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":[19,7,74,20,13,10,158,9,77],"tags":[299,300],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-elections","category-environment","category-health-care","category-iraq","category-media","category-obamarama","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","tag-state-of-the-union","tag-oprah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}