{"id":1033,"date":"2008-10-23T09:43:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T09:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:21:35","slug":"david_sedaris_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/david_sedaris_o.html","title":{"rendered":"David Sedaris on the &#8220;Undecided&#8221; Voters."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. \u201cCan I interest you in the chicken?\u201d she asks. \u201cOr would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, really, what\u2019s to be confused about?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/threeimaginarygirls.com\/blogentry\/2008oct\/electiondaycountdown14daystogo\">Three Imaginary Girls<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/2008\/10\/lay_it_down_clown\">Slog<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/2008\/10\/27\/081027sh_shouts_sedaris\">The New Yorker<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. \u201cCan I interest you in the chicken?\u201d she asks. \u201cOr &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/david_sedaris_o.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random_quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}