{"id":24968,"date":"2014-04-03T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24968"},"modified":"2014-04-03T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:23:04","slug":"dave-barry-rob-ford-supporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/03\/dave-barry-rob-ford-supporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Barry &#8211; Rob Ford supporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/04\/03\/five-questions-for-dave-barry\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Harsanyi<\/a> talks to Dave Barry about various topics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his new book, <em>You Can Date Boys When You\u2019re Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topic He Knows Very Little About<\/em>, America\u2019s leading humorist takes on parenting, world affairs, pets,  Justin Bieber and a slew of others topics that shouldn\u2019t be this funny. We asked him about politics, libertarianism and God:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A lot of people are worried that we\u2019re overprotective of children these days; making sure they never scrape a knee or have their feelings hurt. Would you consider yourself more of a helicopter parent or a free-range parent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m free-range most of the time. I realize I\u2019m being stereotypical, but I usually leave it up to my wife to keep track of most the details of my daughter\u2019s life, such as is she eating, does she receive medical care, how old is she, etc. The exception is when boys come around, at which point I become more of a helicopter parent. Actually, I become a Predator Drone.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you had to pick one politician that reflects everything that\u2019s awful about politics today who would it be? And is there any politician that you\u2019d feel good voting for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d go with Anthony Weiner for part one of that question, and Rob Ford for part two.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Harsanyi talks to Dave Barry about various topics: In his new book, You Can Date Boys When You\u2019re Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topic He Knows Very Little About, America\u2019s leading humorist takes on parenting, world affairs, pets, Justin Bieber and a slew of others topics that shouldn\u2019t be this funny. We [&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":[32,57,28],"tags":[375,636],"class_list":["post-24968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-media","tag-parents","tag-robford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6uI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24968","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=24968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24969,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24968\/revisions\/24969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}