{"id":17,"date":"2004-12-13T15:50:51","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T20:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=17"},"modified":"2004-12-13T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T20:58:13","slug":"requesting-a-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Requesting a Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m serving notice: as a liberal, I no longer want Maureen Dowd on my side. Her column this weekend begins: <\/p>\n

\nOn the first day of Christmas,
\nmy Rummy sent to me
\na Saddam pigeon in a palm tree.
\nNot knowing Osama’s address,
\nRummy hastened to ‘Potamia – and a mess,
\nexhorting his pal Cheney,
\n“Let’s bomb Baghdad again, golly gee!”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not funny, it doesn’t scan, it barely makes sense, and it only gets worse. If you want to subject yourself to further torture, and a serious case of the D.C.’s, read the whole thing here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Please consider a new career, Maureen. You’re not helping.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m serving notice: as a liberal, I no longer want Maureen Dowd on my side. Her column this weekend begins: On the first day of Christmas, my Rummy sent to me a Saddam pigeon in a palm tree. Not knowing Osama’s address, Rummy hastened to ‘Potamia – and a mess, exhorting his pal Cheney, “Let’s … Continue reading “Requesting a Transfer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-world-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}