{"id":1079,"date":"2004-12-27T19:40:49","date_gmt":"2004-12-27T23:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2004-12-27T19:40:49","modified_gmt":"2004-12-27T23:40:49","slug":"email-of-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Email of the Moment&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/FloridaLighter.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Sent in by our friend Corey K, and with apologies to the good people of the Sunshine State. Would that this were the only such email\/comment we&#8217;ve received along these lines of late since beginning our reporting on <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00001024.htm\">the Clint Curtis\/Tom Feeney &#8220;Vote-Rigging&#8221; scandal<\/a>. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s just one of many similar&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Just a little memory I thought you&#8217;d appreciate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sometime in the early to mid 1980s, I&#8217;m at DisneyWorld in Orlando with my family.  We&#8217;re about to get on the jungle ride.<\/p>\n<p>My dad is chatting with the boat&#8217;s &#8220;tour guide&#8221; as we&#8217;re boarding, and in the course of the brief conversation my dad says something along the lines of, &#8220;Why not?  It&#8217;s a free country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the jungle boat tour guide chuckles and says, &#8220;Ah&#8230; you must be from out of state!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent in by our friend Corey K, and with apologies to the good people of the Sunshine State. Would that this were the only such email\/comment we&#8217;ve received along these lines of late since beginning our reporting on the Clint Curtis\/Tom Feeney &#8220;Vote-Rigging&#8221; scandal. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s just one of many similar&#8230; Just a little memory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}