{"id":3143,"date":"2022-08-25T14:01:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2022-08-25T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:01:14","slug":"dave-tell-me-the-tale-of-tommy-tucker-the-trans-squirrel-pope-beloved-by-1940s-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/08\/dave-tell-me-the-tale-of-tommy-tucker-the-trans-squirrel-pope-beloved-by-1940s-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave, Tell Me the Tale of Tommy Tucker, the Trans Squirrel Pope Beloved by 1940s America!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not much to tell, really: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/animals\/a-squirrels-guide-to-fashion\/\">Lil Tommy Tucker was orphaned as an infant, and then adopted and raised Mrs. Mark Bullis of Washington, D.C.<\/a>\u00a0 It\u2019s unclear when Tommy decided they preferred living life as a human female (as opposed to continuing to identify as a male squirrel).\u00a0 I presume they were ultimately made Squirrel Pope, on account most squirrels were extremely progressive \u201cLiberation\u201d Catholics prior to the Red Scare. Since then, mainline squirrels have largely gravitated toward Lutheranism, and gotten hella racist. Pretty messed up, when you think about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">(Yes, that is a real live squirrel in the picture.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">To learn more about this remarkable rodent and his contribution to Post-War America, ask your local librarian, or just click this link: <strong><em>LIFE Magazine: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/animals\/a-squirrels-guide-to-fashion\/\">A Squirrel\u2019s Guide to Fashion<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to tell, really: Lil Tommy Tucker was orphaned as an infant, and then adopted and raised Mrs. Mark Bullis of Washington, D.C.\u00a0 It\u2019s unclear when Tommy decided they preferred living life as a human female (as opposed to continuing to identify as a male squirrel).\u00a0 I presume they were ultimately made Squirrel Pope, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/08\/dave-tell-me-the-tale-of-tommy-tucker-the-trans-squirrel-pope-beloved-by-1940s-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dave, Tell Me the Tale of Tommy Tucker, the Trans Squirrel Pope Beloved by 1940s America!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[77,430,803,802],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}