{"id":886,"date":"2013-10-31T22:21:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T02:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=886"},"modified":"2013-10-31T22:21:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T02:21:32","slug":"rep-scott-desjarlais-is-uncle-fester-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2013\/10\/31\/rep-scott-desjarlais-is-uncle-fester-for-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Scott DesJarlais is Uncle Fester for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-885\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ScottDesJarlais-UncleFester.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-885\" alt=\"Rep. Scott DesJarlais (l), Uncle Fester (r)\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ScottDesJarlais-UncleFester-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ScottDesJarlais-UncleFester-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ScottDesJarlais-UncleFester-53x41.jpg 53w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ScottDesJarlais-UncleFester.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Scott DesJarlais (l), Uncle Fester (r)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rep. Scott DesJarlais, who represents Tennessee&#8217;s 4th congressional district, was praised by his constituents on Halloween for his convincing portrayal of the character Uncle Fester from the mid-&#8217;60s television show <i>The Addams Family<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re talking about,&#8221; said DesJarlais, who seemed to be annoyed by the many people who were pointing at him and laughing. &#8220;I&#8217;m not dressed up as anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Stop. Please stop,&#8221; said DesJarlais, who turned and walked away from a crowd of people who gave him a light bulb and asked him to put it in his mouth so they could pose for photos with him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This is what I normally look like,&#8221; said DesJarlais, visibly flustered. &#8220;I can&#8217;t help it!&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Scott DesJarlais, who represents Tennessee&#8217;s 4th congressional district, was praised by his constituents on Halloween for his convincing portrayal of the character Uncle Fester from the mid-&#8217;60s television show The Addams Family. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re talking about,&#8221; said DesJarlais, who seemed to be annoyed by the many people who were pointing at him and laughing. &#8220;I&#8217;m not dressed up as anything.&#8221; &#8220;Stop. Please stop,&#8221; said DesJarlais, who turned and walked away from a crowd of people who gave him a light bulb and asked him to put it in his mouth so they could pose for photos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886"}],"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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}