{"id":23,"date":"2004-09-01T20:03:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T00:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2004-09-02T13:16:36","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T17:16:36","slug":"im-not-a-political-analyst-but-i-star-in-plays-with-political-subtexts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not a political analyst, but I star in plays with political themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The depth of the liberal media squad shows its teeth:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All these figures in Shakespeare suffer from hubris, and that&#8217;s what W. is suffering from,&#8221; says Kenneth Albers, a veteran Shakespearean actor who is playing Lear in Ashland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the strength of this actor&#8217;s knowledge (note the term &#8220;veteran&#8221;) of the behavior of semi-fictional characters in Elizabethean drama, one can only conclude that Mr.Bush (here just &#8220;W&#8221;) does indeed suffer from hubris.  In addition to the political pressure of such &#8220;Hollywood liberal elites&#8221; as Ben Affleck, the Bush campaign must now contend with the power and influence of Stratford-upon-Avon.       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The depth of the liberal media squad shows its teeth: &#8220;All these figures in Shakespeare suffer from hubris, and that&#8217;s what W. is suffering from,&#8221; says Kenneth Albers, a veteran Shakespearean actor who is playing Lear in Ashland. On the strength of this actor&#8217;s knowledge (note the term &#8220;veteran&#8221;) of the behavior of semi-fictional characters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=23\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m not a political analyst, but I star in plays with political themes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-op-ed-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}