{"id":2664,"date":"2016-04-14T12:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T04:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/ted-cruz-riding-a-roller-coaster-is-the-2016-election-in-a-nutshell\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T04:36:11","slug":"ted-cruz-riding-a-roller-coaster-is-the-2016-election-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/ted-cruz-riding-a-roller-coaster-is-the-2016-election-in-a-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz riding a roller coaster is the 2016 election in a nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elections are a lot like roller coasters: There are ups, there are downs, you’re thrown for loops, sometimes you laugh, and by the end you’re ready to throw up.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Ted Cruz loves cheese. Just not cheeseheads.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It’s appropriate, then, that Ted Cruz’s campaign posted the below video of the candidate riding the Ravine Flyer 2 roller coaster at Waldameer Park in Erie, Pennsylvania in a suit.<\/p>\n

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The footage is just what you’d expect from the 2016 campaign: a noisy, high-speed, blurry, chaotic mess.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the video, Cruz manages to accurately mimic human behavior by raising his hands in the air but, strangely, doesn’t make a sound throughout the ride. No “woooo” or “wheeee” to be heard over the rushing wind.<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elections are a lot like roller coasters: There are ups, there are downs, you’re thrown for loops, sometimes you laugh, and by the end you’re ready to throw up. SEE ALSO: Ted Cruz loves cheese. Just not cheeseheads. It’s appropriate, … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}