{"id":291,"date":"2006-11-07T10:48:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T15:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2006-11-07T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T15:48:52","slug":"cthulhu-fhtagn-and-he-approves-of-this-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Cthulhu fhtagn, and he approves of this message."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unspeakable dread is mounting on this Election Day as I traverse the glittering touchscreen prompts on the voting machines to select our next round of overlords.  But in his house at R&apos;lyeh, dead <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cthulhu\">Cthulhu<\/a> waits dreaming.  And he has a campaign.  Chris, friend of the Cthulhu for Senate effort, wore this shirt to the polls this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image293\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/248114.jpg\" alt=\"248114.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Get the word out with another fine example of Cthulhu campaign paraphenilia:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image288\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/vote4cthulhu.jpg\" alt=\"vote4cthulhu.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cthulhu\">More info on Cthulhu<\/a>.  Keep his name in mind if your desperation at the ballot leads you to stare at the write-in box, wondering what name to scrawl there.  Is &#8220;a pulpy, tentacled head surmounted by a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings&#8221; really any worse than many of the people we&#8217;ve already elected???<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to wait a little while longer for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cthulhu.org\/\">Cthulhu for President campaign<\/a> to heat up.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image292\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/CHA0091.gif\" alt=\"CHA0091.gif\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0374900\/\">Napoleon Dynamite<\/a> shirt the Cthulhu shirt is based on:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image289\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/vote-for-pedro.jpg\" alt=\"vote-for-pedro.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See also:  <a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=207\">Icethulhu<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=180\">Foodthulhu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unspeakable dread is mounting on this Election Day as I traverse the glittering touchscreen prompts on the voting machines to select our next round of overlords. But in his house at R&apos;lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. And he has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=291\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,16,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre","category-crackbaby","category-meaningless","category-movies","category-queasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}