{"id":465,"date":"2008-12-17T20:13:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T01:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=465"},"modified":"2009-11-02T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T01:20:11","slug":"mission-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Mission Accomplished!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>So, I&#8217;m poring over the Drudge Report in my daily search for cheap laffs, <\/strong>and finding out what the Enemy is up to, and I come across this Associated Press dispatch from Baghdad reporting on the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at President Chimp, and thinking &#8220;whoa, that&#8217;s some cheap laffs \u2013 and he almost hit the sonofabitch, too! Sweet!&#8221; and move on with whatever I was doing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466\" title=\"missionaccomplished550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/missionaccomplished550w-375x600.jpg\" alt=\"missionaccomplished550w\" width=\"375\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/missionaccomplished550w-375x600.jpg 375w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/missionaccomplished550w-93x150.jpg 93w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/missionaccomplished550w-312x500.jpg 312w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/missionaccomplished550w.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later that day, I go by Drudge again, and find another story from Agencie France-Presse noting that the perpetrator of this &#8220;shoe-icide attack&#8221; is being hailed as a hero in most of the Arab World, and the next thing I know the whole world&#8217;s raising hell to get the guy out of prison, it&#8217;s being reported that he&#8217;s being beaten in custody, there are demonstrations and rallies all over in solidarity, and I&#8217;m thinking&#8230;holy shit, this story&#8217;s really grown some legs, man!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Mission Accomplished!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/missionaccomplished\/missionaccomplished.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 650k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m poring over the Drudge Report in my daily search for cheap laffs, and finding out what the Enemy is up to, and I come across this Associated Press dispatch from Baghdad reporting on the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at President Chimp, and thinking &#8220;whoa, that&#8217;s some cheap laffs \u2013 and he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,10,9],"tags":[12,1456,163],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-iraq","category-media","category-war-and-peace","tag-bush","tag-iraq","tag-shoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}