{"id":4173,"date":"2013-05-09T23:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T04:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2013-05-09T23:30:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T04:30:18","slug":"pretty-in-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4173","title":{"rendered":"Pretty in pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out Charles Krauthammer&#8217;s downplaying analogy over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/347895\/pink-line-over-damascus\">NRO<\/a> for Obama&#8217;s &#8216;Red Line&#8217; ultimatum with Syria using chemical weapons and what the Right thinks is dithering (or &#8220;fudging and fumbling&#8221;) in the face of the worry they&#8217;ve used them.\u00c2\u00a0 The headline:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pink Line over Damascus<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get it?\u00c2\u00a0 Not<em> red<\/em>, but <em>pink<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 You see what he did there? Replaced <em>red<\/em> with <em>pink. <\/em>So, it&#8217;s like a <em>girl&#8217;s<\/em> ultimatum, which is, you know, not very decisive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He would have it both ways: sound decisive but never have to deliver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, <em><\/em>just like <em> a little girl<\/em>, so <em>pink.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>And conservatives wonder why they have a problem with women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out Charles Krauthammer&#8217;s downplaying analogy over at the NRO for Obama&#8217;s &#8216;Red Line&#8217; ultimatum with Syria using chemical weapons and what the Right thinks is dithering (or &#8220;fudging and fumbling&#8221;) in the face of the worry they&#8217;ve used them.\u00c2\u00a0 The headline: Pink Line over Damascus Get it?\u00c2\u00a0 Not red, but pink.\u00c2\u00a0 You see what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pretty in pink<\/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":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-krauthammer","category-weak-analogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173","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=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}