{"id":1526,"date":"2007-12-21T13:21:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T18:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/12\/21\/the-sneetches\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T18:21:59","slug":"the-sneetches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/the-sneetches\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sneetches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2007_12_16_archive.html#1664339782677208064\">Atrios<\/a> is right, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/21\/us\/politics\/21huckabee.html\">this<\/a> is pretty amusing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Who is your favorite author?&#8221; Aleya Deatsch, 7, of West Des Moines asked Mr. Huckabee in one of those posing-like-a-shopping-mall-Santa moments.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Huckabee paused, then said his favorite author was Dr. Seuss.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview afterward with the news media, Aleya said she was somewhat surprised. She thought the candidate would be reading at a higher level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My favorite author is C. S. Lewis,&#8221; she said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Aleya had been <a href=\"http:\/\/rossdouthat.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/huckabees_amateur_hour.php\">keeping up with blogs<\/a>, she would have been less surprised at Huckabee&#8217;s reading level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atrios is right, this is pretty amusing: &#8220;Who is your favorite author?&#8221; Aleya Deatsch, 7, of West Des Moines asked Mr. Huckabee in one of those posing-like-a-shopping-mall-Santa moments. Mr. Huckabee paused, then said his favorite author was Dr. Seuss. In an interview afterward with the news media, Aleya said she was somewhat surprised. She thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}