{"id":1332,"date":"2015-08-11T08:02:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2015-08-11T08:02:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:02:40","slug":"sen-ted-cruz-gets-sick-tats-at-standard-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2015\/08\/11\/sen-ted-cruz-gets-sick-tats-at-standard-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ted Cruz gets &#8220;sick tats&#8221; at Standard Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1331\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ted_cruz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1331\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ted_cruz-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Ted Cruz (by Gage Skidmore, used under the CC-BY-SA-2.0 license.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ted_cruz-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ted_cruz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Ted Cruz (by <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ofo2yuh\">Gage Skidmore<\/a>, used under the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0)\">CC-BY-SA-2.0<\/a> license.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After U.S. Sen. and Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz gave a speech at GraceWorks Church in Chattanooga yesterday morning, he revealed that the primary reason for his visit was actually to get some &#8220;sick tats&#8221; at Standard Ink Tattoo Company on Frazier Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz was fulfilling a suggestion he made last year, as reported by <i>The Washington Post<\/i>, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2014\/04\/12\/cruz-and-paul-greeted-by-cheers-at-tea-partys-2016-warm-up\/\">the words &#8220;Growth&#8221; and &#8220;Opportunity&#8221; should be tattooed on every Republican politician<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently inspired by Robert Mitchum&#8217;s character in the film <i>The Night of the Hunter<\/i>, Cruz had the two words tattooed across his knuckles in a 3-D font resembling the one used by Metallica on its <i>Master of Puppets <\/i>album cover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is some sweet-ass ink,&#8221; said Cruz while sitting in the tattoo parlor chair. &#8220;If I have enough time today, I&#8217;m going to get another tat, of Calvin pissing on a copy of the Affordable Care Act, on my caboose.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After U.S. Sen. and Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz gave a speech at GraceWorks Church in Chattanooga yesterday morning, he revealed that the primary reason for his visit was actually to get some &#8220;sick tats&#8221; at Standard Ink Tattoo Company on Frazier Ave. Cruz was fulfilling a suggestion he made last year, as reported by The Washington Post, that the words &#8220;Growth&#8221; and &#8220;Opportunity&#8221; should be tattooed on every Republican politician. Apparently inspired by Robert Mitchum&#8217;s character in the film The Night of the Hunter, Cruz had the two words tattooed across his knuckles in a 3-D font resembling the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}