{"id":1587,"date":"2008-10-23T19:55:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T23:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2008-10-23T19:55:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T23:55:36","slug":"the-mccain-temper-its-a-family-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/23\/the-mccain-temper-its-a-family-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"The McCain Temper: It&#8217;s a Family Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe &#8220;Northern Virginia is Community Country&#8221; McCain, brother of John, called Alexandria 911 (a service rooted in socialism, I&#8217;ll note) to complain about traffic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 911 call came into the City of Alexandria on Oct. 21st That&#8217;s creating some buzz because it appears to come from Joe McCain, John McCain&#8217;s brother.<\/p>\n<p>Operator: 911 state your emergency<\/p>\n<p>Caller: It&#8217;s not an emergency but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and yet traffic&#8217;s coming the other way?<\/p>\n<p>Operator: Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (pause)<\/p>\n<p>Caller: &#8220;(Expletive) you.&#8221; (caller hangs up)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjla.com\/news\/stories\/1008\/563913.html\">here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 You can always move to Arizona, Joe.\u00c2\u00a0 (I hear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/07\/14\/cindy-mccain-in-arizona-t_n_112695.html\">the only way to get around there is via private plane<\/a>, though.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe &#8220;Northern Virginia is Community Country&#8221; McCain, brother of John, called Alexandria 911 (a service rooted in socialism, I&#8217;ll note) to complain about traffic: The 911 call came into the City of Alexandria on Oct. 21st That&#8217;s creating some buzz because it appears to come from Joe McCain, John McCain&#8217;s brother. Operator: 911 state your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}