{"id":63,"date":"2005-03-23T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/2005\/03\/23\/forget-feng-shui-in-politics-its-deng-shui\/"},"modified":"2006-03-24T20:02:58","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T03:02:58","slug":"forget-feng-shui-in-politics-its-deng-shui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/forget-feng-shui-in-politics-its-deng-shui\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget Feng Shui&#8211;in politics, it&#8217;s Deng Shui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feng Shui, the Chinese art of arranging furniture so that it directs the energy flow in a room, is all the rage these days. Politicians have long practiced a related art: Deng Shui (pronounced \"dung shway\")--the art of framing a discussion so that when the mud slinging begins (\"mud\" being a euphamism here...), the filth flows past you and only your opponents get dirty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feng Shui, the Chinese art of arranging furniture so that it directs the energy flow in a room, is all the rage these days. Politicians have long practiced a related art: Deng Shui (pronounced \"dung shway\")--the art of framing a discussion so that when the mud slinging begins (\"mud\" being a euphamism here...), the filth...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/forget-feng-shui-in-politics-its-deng-shui\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}