{"id":871,"date":"2003-12-16T22:36:54","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T22:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-871.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"pickles-and-a-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/12\/16\/pickles-and-a-45\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pickles and a .45&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No-one does a good rant quite like Karl over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordsoup.com\/word\/\">Word Soup<\/a>.  Today sees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordsoup.com\/word\/archives\/001276.html\">one of his best ones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.wordsoup.com\/word\/archives\/001276.html\"><p>Obviously Saddam, who was the sole mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and was planning bio and chem attacks on the U.S. (right? RIGHT?), was coordinating the Iraqi resistance with a hot-dog and some fig newtons in a fucking hole. I mean he was dangerous pre-war, what with his army and airforce grounded, Inspectors coating the landscape and the CIA up his ass, but he was super-EXTRA dangerous hiding in that fucking box with pickles and a .45.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t written much about politics lately because I don&#8217;t want to embarrass anyone with the bubbly enthusiasm I tend to run over with whenever I get on the subject.  But take Karl&#8217;s post, rotate it across the Atlantic, and you get to pretty much where I&#8217;m at right now.  Sign me up for that Paypal fund, dude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No-one does a good rant quite like Karl over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordsoup.com\/word\/\">Word Soup<\/a>.  Today sees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordsoup.com\/word\/archives\/001276.html\">one of his best ones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.wordsoup.com\/word\/archives\/001276.html\"><p>Obviously Saddam, who was the sole mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and was planning bio and chem attacks on the U.S. (right? RIGHT?), was coordinating the Iraqi resistance with a hot-dog and some fig newtons in a fucking hole. I mean he was dangerous pre-war, what with his army and airforce grounded, Inspectors coating the landscape and the CIA up his ass, but he was super-EXTRA dangerous hiding in that fucking box with pickles and a .45.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics_and_economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}