{"id":27262,"date":"2024-05-12T19:42:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T00:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=27262"},"modified":"2024-05-13T05:56:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T10:56:22","slug":"the-cantankerati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=27262","title":{"rendered":"The Cantankerati"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Cantankerati – The Cantankerous Illuminati<\/h4>\n\n\n
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WLBOTT In History<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In the 1920’s the WLBOTT<\/strong> executive committee formed an ad hoc task group to channel the energies of the peevish and disgruntled Elders. The task group was named the Cantankerati<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walter E. Willbot, 3rd generation heir of the WLBOTT<\/strong> dynasty. Shown here in 1922, announcing the creation of the Cantankerati<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Never before revealed photos of early Cantankerati <\/strong>gatherings (known as the Algonquin Twine Table).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The task force moved in the shadows, using its WLBOTT<\/strong> mandate to discuss thermostat settings, mimes, Zoot suits, weather, the government, the economy, leftists, rightists, centrists, foreigners, locals, Easterners, Westerners, Southerners, Northerners, and a general category known simply as “these kids today….”.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Secrecy required enforcement and compliance with security protocols. The Cantankerati <\/strong>had a no-nonsense team of enforcers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The task force was disbanded in 1934 as the Elders had become more gruntled<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WLBOTT Words of the Day<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Semi-Sequitur: The Gruntled Rabbit Hole<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Cantankerati – The Cantankerous Illuminati WLBOTT In History In the 1920’s the WLBOTT executive committee formed an ad hoc task group to channel the energies of the peevish and disgruntled Elders. The task group was named the Cantankerati. Never before revealed photos of early Cantankerati gatherings (known as the Algonquin Twine Table). The task […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-acts-of-wlbottness","category-wlbott-corporate"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27262"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27295,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262\/revisions\/27295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}