{"id":9866,"date":"2013-02-12T22:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9866"},"modified":"2013-02-12T22:17:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T06:17:56","slug":"photos-of-the-moment-boehner-the-grouch-and-rubio-stays-thirsty-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9866","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the Moment: Boehner the Grouch and Rubio Stays Thirsty, My Friend&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican House Speaker John Boehner didn&#8217;t seem to care for President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union address tonight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Obama_BoehnerGrimace_SOTU_021213.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Speaker &#8220;managed not to rise even for a shout-out to &#8216;wounded warriors,&#8217; or 102-year-old Desiline Victor, who waited seven hours to vote in Miami on Election Day,&#8221; notes Joan Walsh in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/02\/13\/the_night_john_boehner_just_sat_there\/\">&#8220;The night John Boehner just sat there&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the biggest boner of the night came during Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) official Republican Response. The junior Senator and 2016 hopeful was apparently demonstrating the need for action on climate change, by personally re-enacting the nation&#8217;s worst drought in fifty years. It all eventually led to what has now become known as the &#8220;gulp heard round the world&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/MarcoRubio_WaterGulp_021213.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, Marco. Nobody noticed. Except for everybody. And, of course, Deadspin, who has the <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/5983866\/lets-all-watch-marco-rubios-panicked-drink-of-water-in-extreme-slow-motion\">entire moment in excruciating extreme slo-mo<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>For more serious concerns about tonight&#8217;s State of the Union address, see <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9865\">our earlier report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican House Speaker John Boehner didn&#8217;t seem to care for President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union address tonight&#8230; The Speaker &#8220;managed not to rise even for a shout-out to &#8216;wounded warriors,&#8217; or 102-year-old Desiline Victor, who waited seven hours to vote in Miami on Election Day,&#8221; notes Joan Walsh in &#8220;The night John Boehner just [&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":[239,455,597,204],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-john-boehner","category-marco-rubio","category-sotu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9866","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=9866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9866"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}