{"id":8738,"date":"2002-10-03T15:37:38","date_gmt":"2002-10-03T20:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/03\/i-heard-of-blue-dog-democrats-but-this-is-ridiculous\/"},"modified":"2002-10-03T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2002-10-03T20:37:38","slug":"i-heard-of-blue-dog-democrats-but-this-is-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/i-heard-of-blue-dog-democrats-but-this-is-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"I heard of Blue Dog Democrats, but this is ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>Montana&#8217;s Libertarian candidate for Senate has turned blue from<br \/>\ndrinking a silver solution that he believed would protect him from disease.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and<br \/>\npart-time college instructor, said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999<br \/>\nfor fear that Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of<br \/>\nantibiotics.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>He made his own concoction by electrically charging a<br \/>\ncouple of silver wires in a glass of water.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>His skin began turning blue-gray a year ago.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;People ask me if it&#8217;s permanent and if I&#8217;m dead,&#8221; he<br \/>\nsaid. &#8220;I tell them I&#8217;m practicing for Halloween.&#8221; <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,64692,00.html\">[Full story]<\/a> <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/US\/Central\/10\/02\/candidate.blue.skin.ap\/\">[Picture]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font\ncolor=#000000>Now this a person I would really trust to make prudent, sound and<br \/>\nintelligent decisions if elected.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana&#8217;s Libertarian candidate for Senate has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he believed would protect him from disease. Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college instructor,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}