{"id":273,"date":"2011-07-31T18:05:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=273"},"modified":"2011-08-08T21:24:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T01:24:26","slug":"hobbits-and-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Hobbits and Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The budget debate is bringing out the best in some of our politicians.\u00a0 On Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)\u00a0 mocked members of the conservative grassroots movement as \u201ctea-party hobbits.\u201d\u00a0 Not to be outdone, freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told reporters:\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019d rather be a hobbit than a troll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Feeling the need to explain himself, Paul said:\u00a0 \u201cI think in reading the books, the hobbits were the heroes. They overcame great obstacles, and I think I\u2019d rather be a hobbit than a troll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Imagine what they say about President Obama.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The budget debate is bringing out the best in some of our politicians.\u00a0 On Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)\u00a0 mocked members of the conservative grassroots movement as \u201ctea-party hobbits.\u201d\u00a0 Not to be outdone, freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told reporters:\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=273\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}