{"id":22796,"date":"2013-11-03T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22796"},"modified":"2013-11-03T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T15:22:11","slug":"matt-welch-and-his-waking-up-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/11\/03\/matt-welch-and-his-waking-up-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Welch and his waking-up nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt didn&#8217;t wake up comfortably this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>My wake-up nightmare was better than yours: Was forced to read aloud a Harlequin history of the torrid love affair between Ayn Rand &amp; Soros!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Welch (@mleewelch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mleewelch\/statuses\/397001106934358016\">November 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>This was read at a meeting of the Fresno City Council. According to the history&#8211;which seemed suspect&#8211;the lovers met in Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Welch (@mleewelch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mleewelch\/statuses\/397001311553474560\">November 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>The two had commandeered Hitler&#39;s secret boats to conduct daring explorations and build miles-long oil platforms off  the coast of Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Welch (@mleewelch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mleewelch\/statuses\/397001549739606016\">November 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>I was reading this under duress, because of a drug kingpin\/local grandee who was about to set Fresno City Council on fire with golf balls.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Welch (@mleewelch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mleewelch\/statuses\/397001828597907457\">November 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>The pictures in the slideshow of the young Soros were hilarious&#8211;basically the Eraserhead movie poster, but with white hair and insane grin.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Welch (@mleewelch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mleewelch\/statuses\/397002075369783297\">November 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Moral of the story: Daylight Savings Time is just WRONG.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Welch (@mleewelch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mleewelch\/statuses\/397002170022637569\">November 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt didn&#8217;t wake up comfortably this morning: My wake-up nightmare was better than yours: Was forced to read aloud a Harlequin history of the torrid love affair between Ayn Rand &amp; Soros! &mdash; Matt Welch (@mleewelch) November 3, 2013 This was read at a meeting of the Fresno City Council. According to the history&#8211;which seemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[57],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-22796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5VG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22797,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22796\/revisions\/22797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}