{"id":1300,"date":"2004-02-02T03:38:04","date_gmt":"2004-02-02T10:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2004-02-02T03:38:04","modified_gmt":"2004-02-02T10:38:04","slug":"do-not-eat-the-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/02\/02\/do-not-eat-the-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Do NOT EAT THE BABY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"001832\"><\/a>George W. Bush is shaking the public&#8217;s hands after a campaign fundraiser.  Somebody hands him a baby.<\/p>\n<p>George W. Bush looks closely at the baby.  He licks his lips, and brings his mouth close to the baby.  His thoughts, &#8220;MUST&#8230; RESIST&#8230; URGE&#8230; TO EAT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Karl Rove is watching on a closed-circuit television.  A microphone is rigged into Bush&#8217;s ear to guide Bush.  Karl Rove is having a conniption fit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Georgie&#8230; DO NOT EAT THE BABY!  I REPEAT:  DO NOT EAT THE BABY!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bush mouths the code &#8220;Kluggrat Kopa&#8221;, which translated means &#8220;Popping the bubble-wrapping&#8221;, idiomatically meaning essentially &#8220;I know I shouldn&#8217;t, but LOOK AT IT!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>George Bush is able to pull back at the last minute, and after kissing the baby hands it back to its mother.<\/p>\n<p>Karl Rove breathes a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nApologies to Rick Emerson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George W. Bush is shaking the public&#8217;s hands after a campaign fundraiser. Somebody hands him a baby. George W. Bush looks closely at the baby. He licks his lips, and brings his mouth close to the baby. His thoughts, &#8220;MUST&#8230; RESIST&#8230; URGE&#8230; TO EAT.&#8221; Meanwhile, Karl Rove is watching on a closed-circuit television. A microphone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}