{"id":4019,"date":"2012-12-23T21:20:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T02:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2012-12-23T21:22:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T02:22:34","slug":"my-raging-bitch-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/my-raging-bitch-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"My Raging Bitch Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/face3-less-red-santajim_edited-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/face3-less-red-santajim_edited-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"face3-less-red-santajim_edited-2\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/face3-less-red-santajim_edited-2.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/face3-less-red-santajim_edited-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/face3-less-red-santajim_edited-2-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Blanton<\/strong>, the mastermind of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnar.org\"><strong>Project for the New American Revolution<\/strong><\/a>, created the above art work. Luckily, when I <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/21\/my-season-as-a-santa-claus-in-boston\/\">worked as a Santa Claus<\/a>, Raging Bitch had not yet been concocted. <\/p>\n<p>I took one look at that photo and damn near swore off drinking for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas, with or without Raging Bitches!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Blanton, the mastermind of the Project for the New American Revolution, created the above art work. Luckily, when I worked as a Santa Claus, Raging Bitch had not yet been concocted. I took one look at that photo and damn near swore off drinking for the holidays. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My Raging Bitch Christmas - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/my-raging-bitch-christmas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Raging Bitch Christmas - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tom Blanton, the mastermind of the Project for the New American Revolution, created the above art work. 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