{"id":1494,"date":"2004-08-21T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/21\/spare-change-to-kill-politicians\/"},"modified":"2004-08-21T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-21T22:30:00","slug":"spare-change-to-kill-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/21\/spare-change-to-kill-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Spare change to kill politicians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have to love the panhandlers downtown. It seems that everyone has a unique hook to try and tease some money from the smileless mobs. My philosophy is that if they can make me laugh, or catch me off guard with something unusual, I&apos;ll usually dig into my pockets to see if I have some change. (Some of them have gotten to be permanent fixtures of the downtown scene, like Brian-for-food-not-alcohol and Louise-and-the-overweight-guide-dog.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to love the panhandlers downtown. It seems that everyone has a unique hook to try and tease some money from the smileless mobs. My philosophy is that if they can make me laugh, or catch me off guard with something unusual, I&apos;ll usually dig into my pockets to see if I have some&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/21\/spare-change-to-kill-politicians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Spare change to kill politicians?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-o6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}