{"id":2787,"date":"2012-05-09T19:25:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T00:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2012-05-09T19:25:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T00:25:49","slug":"goodbye-to-vidal-sassoon-decency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=2787","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to Vidal Sassoon, Decency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, you know it&#8217;s a rough day when Vidal Sassoon dies and the biggest headline is the President of the United States presenting a verbal bitch-slap to the asshats in North Carolina who&#8217;ve just decided to update their state Constitution in regards to marriage again.\u00a0 Last time they amended it, it was to ban interracial marriage.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m seeing a trend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But still.\u00a0 Vidal Sassoon.\u00a0 Even <strong>I&#8217;ve<\/strong> had that stuff in my hair.\u00a0 An icon, he was huge,\u00a0bigger than life, I thought his commercials were great, I thought he died years ago.\u00a0 And now, poor guy, no one will remember the date of his passing.\u00a0 I hope the voters of North Carolina are proud.\u00a0 North Carolina: where you can marry your cousin, just not your gay cousin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m at it, thank you, Mr. President.\u00a0 Some people are already questioning the wisdom of such a statement in light of the upcoming elections.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t lead by staying quiet.\u00a0 You lead by example.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, that doesn&#8217;t mean\u00a0I want to see you smooching Joe Biden.\u00a0 Not that kind of example.\u00a0 No one wants to see that.\u00a0 I think Internet Rule 34 was suspended on that one.\u00a0 But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>Lead on, Mr. President.\u00a0 Stick to your guns; we&#8217;ll have your back.\u00a0 And good luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Mr. President.  Some people are already questioning the wisdom of such a statement in light of the upcoming elections.  You don&#8217;t lead by staying quiet.  You lead by example.  Mind you, that doesn&#8217;t mean I want to see you smooching Joe Biden.  Not that kind of example. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}