{"id":4123,"date":"2013-04-01T20:58:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T01:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2013-04-02T08:15:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:15:34","slug":"who-loves-the-ad-baculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4123","title":{"rendered":"Who loves the ad baculum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mallard Fillmore, that&#8217;s who.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2013\/04\/MFT20130328.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4124\" alt=\"MFT20130328\" src=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2013\/04\/MFT20130328-300x94.jpg\" width=\"376\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, I should say, actually: Who loves to <em>attribute<\/em> the <em>ad baculum?\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>This seems a very strange sort piece of communication, one that were it actually true or believed to be true, wouldn&#8217;t actually be performed in this fashion.\u00c2\u00a0 That is, if Bruce Tinsley\u00c2\u00a0<em>really believed<\/em> that the President would bomb him for opposing his agenda or other democrats or for thinking that Nancy Pelosi isn&#8217;t attractive (WHUH?), he&#8217;d order a drone strike.\u00c2\u00a0 Or would be willing to threaten one&#8230; would Tinsley write a version of this cartoon?\u00c2\u00a0 Surely not.\u00c2\u00a0 So what&#8217;s this cartoon actually communicating?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mallard Fillmore, that&#8217;s who. Well, I should say, actually: Who loves to attribute the ad baculum?\u00c2\u00a0 This seems a very strange sort piece of communication, one that were it actually true or believed to be true, wouldn&#8217;t actually be performed in this fashion.\u00c2\u00a0 That is, if Bruce Tinsley\u00c2\u00a0really believed that the President would bomb him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who loves the ad baculum?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,282,204],"tags":[974,1171],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeal-to-fearthreat","category-narrativism","category-specious-allegations-of-fallacy","tag-argumentum-ad-baculum","tag-mallard-fillmore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4126,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions\/4126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}