{"id":272496,"date":"2024-09-02T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=272496"},"modified":"2024-08-29T04:41:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T03:41:03","slug":"entire-kennedy-family-changes-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/09\/entire-kennedy-family-changes-last-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Entire Kennedy Family Changes Last Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_272498\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-kennedy-usa-elections.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-272498\" class=\"wp-image-272498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-kennedy-usa-elections.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-kennedy-usa-elections.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-kennedy-usa-elections-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-kennedy-usa-elections-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-272498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Brenner for <em>The Washington Post<\/em> via Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>26 Aug 2024 <\/em>&#8211; Declaring that \u201cenough is enough,\u201d the entire Kennedy family is changing its last name, a spokesman for the former Kennedys announced today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with deep regret that we have chosen to no longer be known as \u2018The Kennedys,\u2019\u201d the spokesman, formerly known as Harland Fitzgerald Kennedy, said. \u201cAdditionally, thousands of Kennedys around the world who are unrelated to us have made the same decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Explaining the impetus behind the switch, the spokesman said, \u201cWe could overlook the brain-worm and the dead bear, but this was the last straw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the ex-Kennedys had not yet selected a new last name, but added, \u201cAt this point, even Lecter would be better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jokes-logo-e1527068528538.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jokes-logo-e1527068528538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><i>____________________________________________<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/andy-borowitz-320-e1492615001617.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-51101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/andy-borowitz-320-e1492615001617.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Andy Borowitz is a <\/i>New York Times<i> best-selling author and a comedian who has written for <\/i>The New Yorker<i> since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever <\/i>National Press Club<i> award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by <\/i>The New Yorker<i> in 2012.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/p\/entire-kennedy-family-changes-last\" >Go to Original &#8211; borowitzreport.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 Aug 2024 &#8211; Declaring that \u201cenough is enough,\u201d the entire Kennedy family is changing its last name, a spokesman for the former Kennedys announced today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":102260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[392,83,109,1929,249,70],"class_list":["post-272496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week","tag-elections","tag-joke","tag-politics","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272499,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272496\/revisions\/272499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}