{"id":38,"date":"2002-09-26T09:39:21","date_gmt":"2002-09-26T09:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=38"},"modified":"2002-09-26T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2002-09-26T09:39:21","slug":"a-pack-of-heathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/09\/26\/a-pack-of-heathers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pack of Heathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The often-inane, though usually entertaining, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/09\/25\/opinion\/25DOWD.html \">Maureen Dowd has a funny column this week<\/a>, comparing our leaders to a pack of alpha girl <a href=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00000IBRT.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\">Heathers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now we have the spectacle of the 70-year-old Rummy acting like a 16-year-old Heather, vixen-slapping those lower in the global hierarchy, trying to dominate and silence the beta countries with less money and fewer designer weapons.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The often-inane, though usually entertaining, Maureen Dowd has a funny column this week, comparing our leaders to a pack of alpha girl Heathers: &#8220;Now we have the spectacle of the 70-year-old Rummy acting like a 16-year-old Heather, vixen-slapping those lower in the global hierarchy, trying to dominate and silence the beta countries with less money&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/09\/26\/a-pack-of-heathers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Pack of Heathers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-policy-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}