{"id":2869,"date":"2015-04-18T16:48:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T16:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/18\/alleged-pants-dropping-politician-inspires-contender-for-lede-of-the-year-screenshot\/"},"modified":"2015-04-18T16:48:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T16:48:16","slug":"alleged-pants-dropping-politician-inspires-contender-for-lede-of-theyear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/2869","title":{"rendered":"Alleged pants-dropping politician inspires contender for ‘lede of the&nbsp;year’"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sdwinkler\/status\/512606796570054656\n<p>Guess not. But we’re thinking&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/middlesex\/index.ssf\/2014\/09\/council_candidate_dropped_racist_slurs_pants_at_middlesex_diner_cops_say_now_he_drops_out.html#incart_m-rpt-1\">NJ.com<\/a>&nbsp;might’ve&nbsp;anticipated the entertainment value:<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Lede of the year <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/p59OehlGTo\">http:\/\/t.co\/p59OehlGTo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/a2B2F35U8V\">pic.twitter.com\/a2B2F35U8V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lachlan\/status\/512606346823606272\">September 18, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>OK, that’s fantastic. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/middlesex\/index.ssf\/2014\/09\/council_candidate_dropped_racist_slurs_pants_at_middlesex_diner_cops_say_now_he_drops_out.html#incart_m-rpt-1\">whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&quot;Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?&quot; RT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lachlan\">@lachlan<\/a>: Lede of the year <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/oBg8qUZqvy\">http:\/\/t.co\/oBg8qUZqvy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/symJwHLLgg\">pic.twitter.com\/symJwHLLgg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baseballcrank\/status\/512606509050503170\">September 18, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishspy\">@irishspy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baseballcrank\">@baseballcrank<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lachlan\">@lachlan<\/a> Councilman Costanza?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Gutherman (@NJNuke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NJNuke\/status\/512607155221168129\">September 18, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>Sounds about right.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/18\/alleged-pants-dropping-politician-inspires-contender-for-lede-of-the-year-screenshot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/18\/alleged-pants-dropping-politician-inspires-contender-for-lede-of-the-year-screenshot\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sdwinkler\/status\/512606796570054656 Guess not. But we’re thinking&nbsp;NJ.com&nbsp;might’ve&nbsp;anticipated the entertainment value: Lede of the year http:\/\/t.co\/p59OehlGTo pic.twitter.com\/a2B2F35U8V &mdash; Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 18, 2014 OK, that’s fantastic. Read the whole thing. &quot;Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?&quot; RT @lachlan: Lede of the year http:\/\/t.co\/oBg8qUZqvy pic.twitter.com\/symJwHLLgg &mdash; Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) September 18, 2014 @irishspy @baseballcrank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/2869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alleged pants-dropping politician inspires contender for ‘lede of the&nbsp;year’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[969,103],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","tag-lachlan-markay","tag-twitchy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/14293289037983-screen-shot-2014-09-18-at-8-29-32-am.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}