{"id":6667,"date":"2021-01-08T08:38:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T16:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6667"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:11:56","slug":"what-i-did-during-the-attempted-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/what-i-did-during-the-attempted-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Did During the Attempted Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I made vegetable soup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I watched the spectacle on television with my father. He called the Republican Senators who raised objections to outcome of the election \u201clower than a snake&#8217;s belt buckle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I drank a gin and tonic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took a walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I listened to morons on sports talk radio talk about sports while a mob was trying to overthrow the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got my first haircut since the pandemic hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ordered a supper of fried chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy for my father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I read the 25<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment aloud to my father and wondered if Pence has the ball to invoke it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I talked to friends on the phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I read on social media that the mob was actually a group of Antifa thugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I read a sign a man carried around at the attack that said: \u201cMake America&#8217;s Penis Hard Again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I watched an episode of the <em>Rockford Files<\/em> with my father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wrote in my journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I watched the <em>Last of the Mohicans <\/em>with Daniel Day Lewis sprinting in every other scene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made vegetable soup. I watched the spectacle on television with my father. He called the Republican Senators who raised objections to outcome of the election \u201clower than a snake&#8217;s belt buckle.\u201d I drank a gin and tonic. I took a walk. I listened to morons on sports talk radio talk about sports while a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10403,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions\/10403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}