{"id":5595,"date":"2013-12-09T14:56:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2014-01-08T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T19:52:00","slug":"coloring-abomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"Coloring abomination"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Imagine a country in which small children are given coloring books figuring a leading politician.<\/p>\n

Coloring books that describe the politician in “non-partisan and fact-driven” terms. A lengthy speech becomes a “magnificent feat”, during which the dear leader spoke with “clairvoyant precision”. The goals of political opponents are “worse than any war”.<\/p>\n

This coloring book is “approved by teachers and educators”. It is “designed to be a fun, educational tool”. Parents are encouraged to “Tell the truth – Tell it often – Tell the children”.<\/p>\n

If you thought I was describing a North Korean coloring book featuring the “Great Successor” King Jong-un or his daddy or granddaddy, think again.<\/p>\n

That is because the abomination that I just described was in fact published in the great United States of America. Its title: “Ted Cruz to the Future\u2122 – Comic Coloring Activity Book<\/a>“, published by Really Big Coloring Books\u00ae, Inc.<\/p>\n

And it is available at Amazon<\/a> for the bargain price of $5.69. Or it was, anyway; presently, it is shown as “Temporarily out of stock.”<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine a country in which small children are given coloring books figuring a leading politician. Coloring books that describe the politician in “non-partisan and fact-driven” terms. A lengthy speech becomes a “magnificent feat”, during which the dear leader spoke with “clairvoyant precision”. The goals of political opponents are “worse than any war”. This coloring book […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-politics","category-9-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5690,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/5690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}