{"id":2478,"date":"2021-02-23T20:39:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T01:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2021-02-23T20:41:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T01:41:25","slug":"mayoral-candidate-christopher-dahl-unloads-boatload-of-rush-limbaugh-death-memes-in-an-effort-to-gain-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2021\/02\/23\/mayoral-candidate-christopher-dahl-unloads-boatload-of-rush-limbaugh-death-memes-in-an-effort-to-gain-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayoral candidate Christopher Dahl unloads boatload of Rush Limbaugh death memes in an effort to gain attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a leading candidate for Chattanooga Mayor was spotted sharing a post supposedly celebrating the death of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, Libertarian candidate Christopher Dahl took to social media to unload a collection of pro-death Limbaugh memes in hopes to snag some attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts believe Mr. Dahl hopes to gain some publicity with a copycat scandal that earned even more press for a leading candidate while those outside the top four have failed to gain any sort of noterity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He was spotted posting a &#8220;We have God-given free will to smoke cigars while denying lung cancer existed and then dying and going straight to hell&#8221; quote with a golden microphone floating in a lake of fire meme,&#8221; exclaimed a local Facebook police officer Donnie Covey. &#8216;This is shameful and I will contact the Chattanoogan at once.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know who he was but I&#8217;m still not going to vote for him,&#8221; explained Chattanooga voter Gary Plummer. &#8220;Posting a meme saying Mr. Limbaugh died choking on a fart covered cigar is the last straw for me.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a leading candidate for Chattanooga Mayor was spotted sharing a post supposedly celebrating the death of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, Libertarian candidate Christopher Dahl took to social media to unload a collection of pro-death Limbaugh memes in hopes to snag some attention. Experts believe Mr. Dahl hopes to gain some publicity with a copycat scandal that earned even more press for a leading candidate while those outside the top four have failed to gain any sort of noterity. &#8220;He was spotted posting a &#8220;We have God-given free will to smoke cigars while denying lung cancer existed and then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}