{"id":6723,"date":"2004-09-29T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/09\/29\/the-tan-commandments-2\/"},"modified":"2004-09-29T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T18:06:14","slug":"the-tan-commandments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/09\/the-tan-commandments-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tan Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/orangekerry.png\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\"><br \/>\n<strong>Set my pollsters free!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">There has been much discussion on what Hugh Hewitt has called Oompa-LoompaGate. His callers had many suggestion for the possible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughhewitt.com\/#postid962\">motives for the overnight color change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">An e-mailer suggests it is just Kerry turning colors for the fall. Another writes that Kerry just wants to declare &quot;Ich bin ein Pumpkiner.&quot; A third says its a play for the Great Pumpkin vote. And finally, one suggests it is just nature&#8217;s pumpkin cycle:<br \/>\nBlooms and grows in July.<br \/>\nTurns Orange in September.<br \/>\nCarved up in October.<\/br><br \/>\nThrown out in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">At first I thought it might be some strange synergistic effect between Kerry and Michael Jackson&#8217;s skin. Kind of a racial Picture of Dorian Gray. But I decided to put on my pajamas and do some investigative reporting and so I put together this story board based on what actually happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/tankerry.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"191\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\"><font color=\"#FF0000\">Update<\/font>: And here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/iclaudius.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/rimshot.html\">Rim Shot<\/a> from the blog Why Fret? I do appreciate a blog with bad guitar puns in the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set my pollsters free! There has been much discussion on what Hugh Hewitt has called Oompa-LoompaGate. His callers had many suggestion for the possible motives for the overnight color change.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}