{"id":21531,"date":"2015-06-26T06:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T13:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21531"},"modified":"2015-06-26T06:43:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T13:43:45","slug":"friday-fun-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/friday-fun-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday fun question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, I believed Joel was the only one among us who intended to <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\/?s=betray+the+revolution\" target=\"_blank\">betray the revolution<\/a> and become dictator for life.*<\/p>\n<p>However, it now appears that others harbor this <del datetime=\"2015-06-26T13:26:16+00:00\">secret<\/del> not-so-secret ambition. Just this week (while addressing the hotly subversive topic of pink plastic flamingos**), Commentariat member <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2015\/06\/24\/tragic\/#comment-39512\" target=\"_blank\">A.G. weighed in<\/a>, dubiously claiming benevolent intentions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2015\/06\/24\/tragic\/#comment-39529\" target=\"_blank\">followed by Dana<\/a>, who announced a more comprehensive agenda to open his term as dictator for life.***<\/p>\n<p>That got me wondering. How many more intend to betray the revolution and become DfL? Good heavens, it&#8217;s possible the field is as crowded**** as the Republican and Democrat presidential races.<\/p>\n<p>So. Your <del datetime=\"2015-06-26T13:34:58+00:00\">freedom<\/del> fun question for the day is: <strong>What will <i>you<\/i> do on your first day as dictator for life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Strictly for laughs, okay? I realize the temptation to find a certain &#8220;conservative&#8221; Supreme Court justice and give him a fair but extremely brief trial before &#8230; ahem &#8230; may be tempting once one holds the dictator seat. But let&#8217;s keep it light today.<\/p>\n<p>Go for it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>* In the extremely unlikely chance that such an opportunity should arise.<\/p>\n<p>** Let our NSA overlords anxiously ponder the significance of that one.<\/p>\n<p>*** Presumably very short life, just before being liquidated by the usual mob of deviously plotting henchpersons.<\/p>\n<p>**** Though surely not as loathsome, scurvy, and scrofulous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, I believed Joel was the only one among us who intended to betray the revolution and become dictator for life.* However, it now appears that others harbor this secret not-so-secret ambition. Just this week (while addressing the hotly subversive topic of pink plastic flamingos**), Commentariat member A.G. weighed in, dubiously claiming benevolent intentions, followed by Dana, who announced a more comprehensive agenda to open his term as dictator for life.*** That got me wondering. How many more intend to betray the revolution and become DfL? Good heavens, it&#8217;s possible the field is as crowded**** as the Republican and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/friday-fun-question\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday fun question<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-humor","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21531","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=21531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}