{"id":26246,"date":"2017-07-05T10:15:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T14:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26246"},"modified":"2017-07-08T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T12:57:11","slug":"progressive-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26246","title":{"rendered":"'Progressive Liberal'"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=wp-caption><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/5958fe06d346c.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greensboro.com\/washingtonpost\/uncategorized\/appalachian-wrestling-s-new-villain-calls-himself-progressive-liberal\/article_4311a5d0-782e-5fea-93a2-b80e3104b23b.html\">It was a strange sight<\/a>, even for the \"sport\" of professional wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>A wrestler holding a microphone faced an Appalachian crowd before a match and began unleashing a torrent of insults, the nature of which seemed out of place at a pro wrestling tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\"I understand now why you all identify with country music. It's slow and it's simple and it's boring, just like each and every one of you.\"<\/p>\n<p>As the crowd grew increasing hostile, the wrestler's remarks became more politically-tinged.<\/p>\n<p>\"You know what, I think Bernie Sanders would make a great secretary of state.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"I want to exchange your bullets for bullet points. Bullet points of knowledge.\"<\/p>\n<p>He even called Donald Trump a \"con man.\" The crowd exploded in jeers. \"Shut up,\" someone yelled.<\/p>\n<p>Strange, indeed. But then, the muscular man's shirt read, \"Not My President.\"<\/p>\n<p>Meet the wrestler who goes by the name \"Progressive Liberal\" Dan Richards, the most hated character in Kentucky's Appalachian Mountain Wrestling (AMW) program, a small professional wrestling circuit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a strange sight, even for the \"sport\" of professional wrestling. A wrestler holding a microphone faced an Appalachian crowd before a match and began unleashing a torrent of insults, the nature of which seemed out of place at a pro wrestling tournament. \"I understand now why you all identify with country music. It's [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26271,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26246\/revisions\/26271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}