{"id":111,"date":"2005-02-23T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=111"},"modified":"2009-12-31T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:24:24","slug":"firing-off-neurons-that-have-lain-dormant-in-your-brain-since-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/02\/firing-off-neurons-that-have-lain-dormant-in-your-brain-since-october.html","title":{"rendered":"Firing off neurons that have lain dormant in your brain since October"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">I haven&#8217;t felt the need to add to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ivegotkarmatoburn.blogspot.com\/\">justified sneering<\/a> at the contrived and cynical abortion &#8220;debate&#8221; that just happened to spontaneously pop up at the end of the silly season. But now that whatever point was to be made has been lost in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinstartshere.com\/\">a welter of jokes<\/a> about discovering your dad is really the Mad Monk, one burning question has been left unresolved.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><em>What the hell happened to Family First?<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">These were the guys we were told had Changed Australia Forever by every political columnist staring down a deadline and three more years of <em>status quo<\/em>. Isn&#8217;t this type of issue supposed to be their bread and butter? So many hacks were telling us a few months ago how influential FF is going to be, and now not one of them can be bothered hunting down one of the happyclappers for a soundbite. According to their website they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyfirst.org.au\">haven&#8217;t said boo<\/a> since December. Did the entire party take their Christmas vacation in Aceh? Or is it possible that their good luck last time at the polls was just a teensy bit overstated?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t felt the need to add to the justified sneering at the contrived and cynical abortion &#8220;debate&#8221; that just happened to spontaneously pop up at the end of the silly season. But now that whatever point was to be made has been lost in a welter of jokes about discovering your dad is really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}