{"id":420,"date":"2005-08-23T17:22:46","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T22:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=420"},"modified":"2005-08-23T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T22:22:46","slug":"crackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Crackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babbling right-winger Pat Robertson really put his foot in it with his lunatic comment about assassinating democratically elected Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nVenezuela, with one of the most robust economies in South America (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000086&sid=a7O_SMdV2vZk\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela&#8217;s economy <\/a>grew for a seventh straight quarter in the April-June period as record high oil prices fueled government spending and consumer purchases.) is also the fifth-largest oil producing nation in the world.<br \/>\nSince the US is the principal buyer of Venezuelan oil, why doesn&#8217;t someone invoke the Patriot Act and throw Pat &#8220;bomb the State Department&#8221; Robertson in the slammer?<br \/>\nA rhetorical question, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babbling right-winger Pat Robertson really put his foot in it with his lunatic comment about assassinating democratically elected Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}