I don’t consume alcohol, so I thought I’d come up with a healthier version of the drinking game:<\/p>\n
I will bicycle 25 miles for every mention of “Osama bin Laden” by either Vice President Cheney or President Bush in his acceptance speech at the GOP convention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Better go pump up those tires.
\nFeel free to set your own personal challenge. And tune in as our leaders recite their efforts in bringing the head 9\/11 perpetrator to justice.
\nUPDATE: I’ve searched Cheney’s speech<\/a> and no Osama. Guess Cheney was too busy going after America’s real enemy–John Kerry. But, not to worry. I’m sure our wartime president will level with us tonight and offer a candid update on his pledge to located Osama “wanted dead or alive” bin Laden.
\nUPDATE 2: Alas, it’s 0 for 2 in the speeches. But I suppose I can do a nice long ride anyway.
\nBack in October 2001, who would have imagined that in his re-election convention speech President Bush would place a much greater emphasis on Iraqi elections than on Osama bin Laden?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don’t consume alcohol, so I thought I’d come up with a healthier version of the drinking game: I will bicycle 25 miles for every mention of “Osama bin Laden” by either Vice President Cheney or President Bush in his acceptance speech at the GOP convention. Better go pump up those tires. Feel free to […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}