{"id":23107,"date":"2016-07-17T18:40:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T01:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23107"},"modified":"2016-07-17T18:40:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T01:40:11","slug":"in-lieu-of-next-weeks-friday-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/in-lieu-of-next-weeks-friday-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"In Lieu of Next Week&#8217;s &#8220;Friday Fun&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, since I&rsquo;m heading up to Illinois Monday morning (which is why I&rsquo;ve been absent more that I&rsquo;d like while getting ready) for a week at Mom&rsquo;s (routine paperwork\/restocking), and it&rsquo;s just too hard to post from my phone, I&rsquo;ll strike a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Despite my &ldquo;immunity&rdquo; to shaming, I&rsquo;ll <em>(finally)<\/em> post some pictures of the critter and my much beloved and daily-used <strong><em>&ldquo;Big Mouth Coffee Mug&rdquo;<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Since it wasn&rsquo;t the easiest undertaking with the cat, you&rsquo;re going to get both of them.&nbsp; The first is of <strong>Nike<\/strong> (so named because he has white sneaker-like feet and loves to jump, with his hallmark two-legged <strong><em>&ldquo;Heigh-Ho, Silver&rdquo;<\/em><\/strong> bounding down the hall) at his <strong><em>&ldquo;Scouting Perch&rdquo;<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Being not the friendliest of critters, he likes his scouting spot because he can keep an eye on the living room, the entry foyer, the dining room and the family room.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160711_185758.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20160711_185758\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-23108\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160711_185758-1024x576.jpg\" width=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160711_185758-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160711_185758-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160711_185758-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160711_185758.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nike&rsquo;s second favorite spot is his <strong><em>&ldquo;Catbird Seat&rdquo;<\/em><\/strong> where he literally likes to keep an eye on the birds in the tree just outside.&nbsp; He&rsquo;s an indoor cat, so he can only dream &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160712_165804.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20160712_165804\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-23109\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160712_165804-1024x576.jpg\" width=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160712_165804-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160712_165804-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160712_165804-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160712_165804.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To actually add a little <strong><em>&ldquo;Fun&rdquo;<\/em><\/strong> &ndash; how about that fiasco of the <strong>&ldquo;Trump-Pence<\/strong> <strong>Logo&quot;<\/strong> rollout?&nbsp; After being widely mocked and ridiculed for their X-rated graphic, they sadly decided to entirely dump it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But since the Twitter world had a frequent meme that their logo looked like Trump was doing to Pence what he would do to the entire country, I think we can elaborate on that theme &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_Logo_Fucks-Pence.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump_Logo_Fucks-Pence\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23110\" height=\"177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_Logo_Fucks-Pence.gif\" width=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course now that they&rsquo;ve ditched it, out of the goodness of my heart I&rsquo;m offering an alternative <em><strong>Logo<\/strong><\/em> to <strong><em>Trump-Pence<\/em><\/strong> using just their initials &ndash; AND at absolutely <em><strong>NO COST<\/strong><\/em> to them:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_Logo_TP_Toilet-Paper.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump_Logo_TP_Toilet-Paper\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23111\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_Logo_TP_Toilet-Paper.png\" width=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_Logo_TP_Toilet-Paper.png 218w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump_Logo_TP_Toilet-Paper-179x300.png 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You think they&#39;ll take me up on my FREE offer?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, since I&rsquo;m heading up to Illinois Monday morning (which is why I&rsquo;ve been absent more that I&rsquo;d like while getting ready) for a week at Mom&rsquo;s (routine paperwork\/restocking), and it&rsquo;s just too hard to post from my phone, I&rsquo;ll strike a compromise. Despite my &ldquo;immunity&rdquo; to shaming, I&rsquo;ll (finally) post some pictures of the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/in-lieu-of-next-weeks-friday-fun\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}