{"id":342,"date":"2004-04-19T17:36:16","date_gmt":"2004-04-19T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=342"},"modified":"2009-10-25T17:50:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T21:50:03","slug":"have-another-pretzel-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Have Another Pretzel, Mr. President!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yeah, sure, call me sick; ask me if I care.<\/strong> I&#8217;ll proudly admit to having laughed until I damn&#8217; near wet my pants on hearing the news that President Chimp had nearly choked to death on a pretzel while watching football on TV at the White House, and that my first subsequent thought was &#8220;have another pretzel, George!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-343\" title=\"haveanotherpretzel550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/haveanotherpretzel550w.jpg\" alt=\"haveanotherpretzel550w\" width=\"550\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/haveanotherpretzel550w.jpg 550w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/haveanotherpretzel550w-87x150.jpg 87w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/haveanotherpretzel550w-292x500.jpg 292w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/haveanotherpretzel550w-351x600.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to take this moment to start spreading around a new expression, to signify that moment when a cocky, hubristic institution suddenly realizes, alas too late, that it&#8217;s bitten off more than it can chew and can&#8217;t stop itself choking: &#8220;Biting The Pretzel&#8221; &#8230;as in &#8220;whoa, Dubya&#8217;s really biting the pretzel in Iraq, huh?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Have another pretzel, Mr. President!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/haveanotherpretzel\/haveanotherpretzel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 774k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, sure, call me sick; ask me if I care. I&#8217;ll proudly admit to having laughed until I damn&#8217; near wet my pants on hearing the news that President Chimp had nearly choked to death on a pretzel while watching football on TV at the White House, and that my first subsequent thought was &#8220;have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[12,1456,113],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-iraq","tag-bush","tag-iraq","tag-pretzel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}