{"id":427,"date":"2003-12-05T23:12:05","date_gmt":"2003-12-06T04:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/the-ronald-reagan-america-act\/"},"modified":"2003-12-05T23:12:05","modified_gmt":"2003-12-06T04:12:05","slug":"the-ronald-reagan-america-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/the-ronald-reagan-america-act\/","title":{"rendered":"the ronald reagan america act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>there was once a tradition that you mostly named things after and built icons and homages to great people after they died.<\/p>\n<p>today,  i heard about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0, 2933, 104930,00.html\">ronald reagan dime act<\/a> (and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/news\/archive\/2003\/12\/05\/state2136EST0164.DTL\" class=\"broken_link\">request<\/a> by mrs. reagan to withdraw the proposal).  i have to agree, but for a different reason.  this is a wimpy proposal.<\/p>\n<p>we have no time for tradition, the man can&#8217;t even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/article.cfm?objectID=DC06ECA2-539A-4242-8F4D5D96D2EDCAE8\">feed himself<\/a>, we should act now to honor this great former american president while he&#8217;s still breathing, but completely unaware of our bold gestures.<\/p>\n<p>accordingly, it&#8217;s time to unveil the &#8220;united states of reagan act,&#8221; which would rename the western hemisphere as &#8220;the gippersphere.&#8221;  north america would become north reagan.  south america, of course, south reagan.  and, naturally, this would become the united states of reagan, or &#8220;usr&#8221; which is, incidentally, a homage to reagan&#8217;s great defeat of the pinko communist evil empire that was once known as the &#8220;ussr.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>resistance is futile, you will be reaganated.<\/p>\n<p>oh, and jelly beans for everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there was once a tradition that you mostly named things after and built icons and homages to great people after they died. today, i heard about the ronald reagan dime act (and the request by mrs. reagan to withdraw the proposal). i have to agree, but for a different reason. this is a wimpy proposal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}