{"id":4379,"date":"2004-01-24T16:52:43","date_gmt":"2004-01-24T16:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2004-01-24T16:52:43","modified_gmt":"2004-01-24T16:52:43","slug":"explaining-politics-to-the-very-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4379","title":{"rendered":"explaining politics to the very young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got kids (one 4 and one 14), and sometimes it&#8217;s hard to explain the primary campaign to them. I&#8217;ve come up with the following key, which may come in handy for others who face the same predicament:<\/p>\n<p>John Kerry = Pooh<\/p>\n<p>Dick Gephardt = Rabbit<\/p>\n<p>Al Sharpton = Gopher<\/p>\n<p>Howard Dean = Tigger<\/p>\n<p>Wesley Clark = Owl<\/p>\n<p>John Edwards = Piglet<\/p>\n<p>Joe Lieberman = Eeyore<\/p>\n<p>Carol Mosely Braun = Kanga<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Kucinich = Little Roo<\/p>\n<p>George W. Bush = A Heffalump<\/p>\n<p>Dick Cheney = A Woozle<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Robin = The American People<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got kids (one 4 and one 14), and sometimes it&#8217;s hard to explain the primary campaign to them. I&#8217;ve come up with the following key, which may come in handy for others who face the same predicament: John Kerry = Pooh Dick Gephardt = Rabbit Al Sharpton = Gopher Howard Dean = Tigger Wesley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}