{"id":3365,"date":"2005-05-23T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2021-06-06T12:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T16:32:52","slug":"in-the-news-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/05\/23\/in-the-news-3\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>Quote of the Day<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2005230454,00.html\" title=\"Link to Sun article\">from <i>The Sun<\/i> UK<\/a><div style=\"margin:15px; padding:15px; border: 1px solid #000;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>Bush Probes Saddam&#8217;s Pants<\/b><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; George Bush yesterday launched a probe into how pictures of Saddam Hussein in his underpants were leaked.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; His spokesman said: &#8220;He has been briefed. He wants to get to the bottom of it.&#8221;<\/div>&nbsp; &nbsp; Somebody call Jeff Gannon!<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>For our Kansan readers<\/b>:<center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/storkism.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/center>&nbsp; &nbsp; I wouldn&#8217;t go so far as to equate the biblical story of creation with a stork &#8216;nursery rhyme&#8217;, but then again I don&#8217;t see why Creationism and Evolution are mutually exclusive (or why the biblical story needs to be taught in schools &#8212; unless of course we also plan to teach algebra in catechism). (See the full <i>This Modern World<\/i> comic at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingforchange.com\/comic.cfm?itemid=19060\">Working for Change.com<\/a>.)\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Quote of the Day: from The Sun UK &nbsp; &nbsp; Bush Probes Saddam&#8217;s Pants&nbsp; &nbsp; George Bush yesterday launched a probe into how pictures of Saddam Hussein in his underpants were leaked.&nbsp; &nbsp; His spokesman said: &#8220;He has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/05\/23\/in-the-news-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}