{"id":1,"date":"2026-09-29T14:42:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:52:48","slug":"senator-eric-schmitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/senator-eric-schmitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmitt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Schmitt: (verb) \\\u02c8shmit\\ <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">     1. A sudden and urgent gastrointestinal revolt in which the body issues an unmistakable, nonnegotiable evacuation order that causes a considerable mess and great humiliation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">     2. To suffer a sudden, public, and spectacular political collapse, especially after overconfidently attempting a partisan attack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">     3. To create such an avoidable mess that one\u2019s credibility, message, and electoral prospects are left in tatters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Example: <\/em>  &#8220;I ended up with that cyclosporiasis invection from tainted lettuce and I schmitted myself in the grocery store trying to buy some Pepto.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Example: <em>\u201cDuring the hearing performance, he didn\u2019t land a blow\u2014he completely schmitted himself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schmitt: (verb) \\\u02c8shmit\\ 1. A sudden and urgent gastrointestinal revolt in which the body issues an unmistakable, nonnegotiable evacuation order that causes a considerable mess and great humiliation. 2. To suffer a sudden, public, and spectacular political collapse, especially after overconfidently attempting a partisan attack. 3. To create such an avoidable mess that one\u2019s credibility, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-eric-schmitt","tag-explosive-diarrhea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senatorericschmitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}