{"id":2516,"date":"2011-12-30T22:53:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T13:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2011-12-30T22:53:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T13:53:28","slug":"tea-for-twelve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/tea-for-twelve\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea for Twelve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m tired. \u00a0You&#8217;re tired. \u00a0We&#8217;re enjoying the holidays, and grateful for a decent excuse not to work on the political thing for a bit. \u00a0I want to write about many things, but you know what? \u00a0I&#8217;m tired of writing, and you&#8217;re tired of reading.<\/p>\n<p>So enjoy the holidays. \u00a0Genuinely relax about the political disaster unfolding, because we need to shepherd our resources closely, and now is not an effective time to fight. \u00a0We have enemies across the ocean and enemies on our shore. \u00a0We have opponents in the other party, and opponents in our own. \u00a0The Obama administration negotiates with enemies while fighting against Americans. \u00a0The Republican Party negotiates with Obama while fighting against the Tea Party. \u00a0Many of the things we had hoped to acocplish after the 2010 election are not possible, because we have been betrayed.<\/p>\n<p>So relax. \u00a0There&#8217;s nothing you can do about it right now, and your family needs you. \u00a0Your friends need you. \u00a0Your co-workers need you. \u00a0Enjoy the respite, as those evacuated from Dunkirk did. \u00a0The most valuable thing a &#8220;Tea Partisan&#8221; can work on right now is getting in some quality time, to refresh and recharge for the fight ahead. \u00a0Soon enough, it will be time to board the landing craft and begin the bloody assault upon the towering cliffs of Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>But not today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2516\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2516\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m tired. \u00a0You&#8217;re tired. \u00a0We&#8217;re enjoying the holidays, and grateful for a decent excuse not to work on the political thing for a bit. \u00a0I want to write about many things, but you know what? \u00a0I&#8217;m tired of writing, and you&#8217;re tired of reading.<\/p>\n<p>So enjoy the holidays. \u00a0Genuinely relax about the political disaster unfolding, because we need to shepherd our resources closely, and now is not an effective time to fight. \u00a0We have enemies across the ocean and enemies on our shore. \u00a0We have opponents in the other party, and opponents in our own. \u00a0The Obama administration negotiates with enemies while fighting against Americans. \u00a0The Republican Party negotiates with Obama while fighting against the Tea Party. \u00a0Many of the things we had hoped to acocplish after the &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/tea-for-twelve\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,240,266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-conservative","category-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}