{"id":10665,"date":"2012-07-12T17:17:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T00:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=10665"},"modified":"2012-07-12T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T00:17:59","slug":"no-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/12\/no-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"No, seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/07\/12\/no-seriously\/gospelofobama\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10666\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/GospelofObama.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover: The Gospel of Barack Hussein Obama According to Mark\" title=\"GospelofObama\" width=\"394\" height=\"573\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/GospelofObama.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/GospelofObama-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a real book. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1469952793\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1469952793\" target=\"_blank\">buy it on Amazon<\/a>. (And I&#8217;m figuring since at least two of you bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001PKU28E\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B001PKU28E\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Chia Planters<\/a> last Christmas, this book is a natural for readers of Living Freedom.)<\/p>\n<p>It is apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicvote.org\/discuss\/index.php?p=32902\" target=\"_blank\">not a parody<\/a>. Or at least not an <i>intentional one<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>And the writer, according to his Amazon blurbette, is a pastor on &#8230; wait for it, wait for it &#8230; <i>Wall Street<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>You see, this is another example of why I simply can&#8217;t write satire any more. The world is already so perfectly self-satirizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a real book. You can buy it on Amazon. (And I&#8217;m figuring since at least two of you bought Obama Chia Planters last Christmas, this book is a natural for readers of Living Freedom.) It is apparently not a parody. Or at least not an intentional one. And the writer, according to his Amazon blurbette, is a pastor on &#8230; wait for it, wait for it &#8230; Wall Street. You see, this is another example of why I simply can&#8217;t write satire any more. The world is already so perfectly self-satirizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-government","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}