{"id":4596,"date":"2005-07-02T09:38:46","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T13:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4596.html"},"modified":"2005-07-02T09:38:46","modified_gmt":"2005-07-02T13:38:46","slug":"pass-the-snails-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/pass-the-snails-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass the snails, please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by <a href=\"mailto:morbomorboson@hotmail.com\">Morbo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a quick programming note: Next week I will be in Paris, so I will not be posting on Saturday, July 9. While in Paris, I hope to pick up some great new ideas about how best to annoy the right wing, from the country that seems to have made it into an art form.<\/p>\n<p>Look for more rants on July 16. In preparation for that, please take a few moments to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenjaygould.org\/ctrl\/jefferson_carr.html\">this 1787 letter<\/a> from Thomas Jefferson to his nephew, Peter Carr (written while Jefferson was in Paris).<\/p>\n<p>On July 16, I&#8217;ll be commenting on this letter and offering some reflections on how it relates to the contemporary political situation.<\/p>\n<p>For now I say, &#8220;Au revoir!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<i>Editor&#8217;s note: We&#8217;ll miss Morbo next Saturday, but my plan is to have another guest poster or two offer some words of wisdom next weekend, so don&#8217;t think you can just take a Saturday off without checking in. &#8212; CB<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Morbo Just a quick programming note: Next week I will be in Paris, so I will not be posting on Saturday, July 9. While in Paris, I hope to pick up some great new ideas about how best to annoy the right wing, from the country that seems to have made it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}