{"id":154,"date":"2004-08-31T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2004-08-31T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T10:19:00","slug":"dissin-the-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Dissin&#8217; the Q"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an interview with Rod, the gay character from Broadway&#8217;s <i>Avenue Q<\/i>, on NPR this morning.<\/p>\n<p>He was crying discrimination because the GOP convention organizers were not offering discounts to <i>Avenue Q<\/i>, which, according to the Tonys, was the Best Book, Best Score and Best Musical of 2004.  <\/p>\n<p>Rod:  &#8220;I guess they can&#8217;t handle naked puppet-on-puppet action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The interviewer reminded Rod that they had gotten discounts to see another show with naked puppets, <i>The Lion King<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Rod: &#8220;What?!  That&#8217;s it.  I&#8217;m calling Dick Cheney.  Dick!  Get ready, &#8217;cause I&#8217;m calling you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heh, heh, heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an interview with Rod, the gay character from Broadway&#8217;s Avenue Q, on NPR this morning. He was crying discrimination because the GOP convention organizers were not offering discounts to Avenue Q, which, according to the Tonys, was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}