{"id":4567,"date":"2013-12-06T17:43:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2013-12-06T17:43:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T22:43:14","slug":"things-that-are-very-different-part-1487","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4567","title":{"rendered":"Things that are very different part 1487"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/PTGLu61.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"327\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of the battle against Obamacare, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yesterday, Nelson Mandela died. \u00c2\u00a0This somehow prompted <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rick_Santorum\">Rick Santorum<\/a>, former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, to equate Mandela&#8217;s epic struggle against Apartheid with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/12\/06\/rick-santorum-nelson-mandela_n_4398155.html\">GOP battle against Obamacare<\/a> and fictional government enlargement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That&#8217;s the reason he&#8217;s mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed,&#8221; Santorum said. &#8220;But you&#8217;re right, I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice,<strong> and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people&#8217;s lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/home\/2013\/12\/06\/3029871\/wing-timeline-mandela\/\">Where do these people come from<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Nelson Mandela died. \u00c2\u00a0This somehow prompted Rick Santorum, former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, to equate Mandela&#8217;s epic struggle against Apartheid with the GOP battle against Obamacare and fictional government enlargement: &#8220;Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That&#8217;s the reason he&#8217;s mourned today, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things that are very different part 1487<\/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":[1],"tags":[1802,654,1801,1767,1247,1358],"class_list":["post-4567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-apartheid","tag-hcr","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-obamacare","tag-rick-santorum","tag-weak-analogies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567","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=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4568,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions\/4568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}