{"id":27645,"date":"2025-07-13T18:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27645"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:43:01","slug":"icing-elmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27645","title":{"rendered":"Icing Elmo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been clear for a while that the current inhabitant of the White House is not merely trying to destroy our country. And he isn&#8217;t also just trying to cause maximum suffering around the world in the process.<\/p>\n<p>No, he is more ambitious than that. His goal seems to be to do these cruel and awful things in the cringiest, most embarrassing way possible.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: He has now set his sights on that great and powerful archenemy &#8212; Sesame Street. Yes, the guy is actually targeting for destruction the beloved children&#8217;s show with Muppets.<\/p>\n<p>Let us pause for just a second here, and ask &#8220;Who <i>doesn&#8217;t<\/i> like Sesame Street?&#8221; Apparently, out of the 8 billion people in the world, exactly one of them does not like Sesame Street, and he happens to be living in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular theory, which certainly fits the man&#8217;s psychological profile, is that Sesame Street has made fun of him in several episodes through the years. To someone with such a delicate and fragile ego, that is a capital offense.<\/p>\n<p>But I think the real reason is deeper. In its various spoofs and send-ups, Sesame Street has often portrayed him, literally, as a ridiculous puppet in an orange wig.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the real offense, isn&#8217;t it? Revealing that the current inhabitant of the White House is actually just a ridiculous puppet in an orange wig.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the question remains &#8212; who exactly is pulling the strings of this ridiculous puppet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been clear for a while that the current inhabitant of the White House is not merely trying to destroy our country. And he isn&#8217;t also just trying to cause maximum suffering around the world in the process. No, he is more ambitious than that. His goal seems to be to do these cruel &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Icing Elmo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27646,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27645\/revisions\/27646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}