{"id":4406,"date":"2009-09-30T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T14:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=4406"},"modified":"2009-09-30T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T14:59:16","slug":"harry-potter-and-the-congressional-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/dance-party\/09\/30\/harry-potter-and-the-congressional-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter and the Congressional Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US of A, bastion of <a href=\"http:\/\/intershame.com\/on\/Max_Baucus__D_Mont___Kent_Conrad__D_ND___Blanche_Lincoln__D_Ark___Bill_Nelson__D_Fla__and_Tom_Carper__D_Del_\/\">rational thought<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sedaliademocrat.com\/news\/0px-18740-span-font.html\">scientific reasoning<\/a>, denied JK Rowling a Medal of Freedom because Bush administration officials believed she <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/8282356.stm\">&#8220;encouraged witchcraft&#8221;<\/a>. While metaphorical witch hunts are par for the course, I didn&#8217;t realize that there were people who still believed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secularhumanism.org\/index.php?section=library&#038;page=haught_29_5\">shit like that<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Bonus: Jesus says <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/e5yiK.jpg\">cut here<\/a> for the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US of A, bastion of rational thought and scientific reasoning, denied JK Rowling a Medal of Freedom because Bush administration officials believed she &#8220;encouraged witchcraft&#8221;. While metaphorical witch hunts are par for the course, I didn&#8217;t realize that there were people who still believed in shit like that. Bonus: Jesus says cut here for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Harry Potter and the Congressional Medal - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The US of A, bastion of rational thought and scientific reasoning, denied JK Rowling a Medal of Freedom because Bush administration officials believed she\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/dance-party\/09\/30\/harry-potter-and-the-congressional-medal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harry Potter and the Congressional Medal - 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