{"id":1745,"date":"2005-08-24T06:30:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T10:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/bush_and_the_li\/"},"modified":"2005-08-24T06:30:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T10:30:58","slug":"bush_and_the_li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/bush_and_the_li\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush And The Light Bulb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"How the Bush Administration Changes a Light Bulb\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalhumor.about.com\/library\/jokes\/bljokebushlightbulb.htm\">Truth in humor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How many members of the Bush administration does it take to change a light bulb?<br \/>\n1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed;<br \/>\n2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed;<br \/>\n3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb;<br \/>\n4. One to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of light bulbs;<br \/>\n5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new light bulb;<br \/>\n6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner: Light Bulb Change Accomplished;<br \/>\n7. One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally in the dark;<br \/>\n8. One to viciously smear #7;<br \/>\n9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush  has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along;<br \/>\n10. And finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/bush_and_the_li\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Bush And The Light Bulb\"><p>Truth in humor: How many members of the Bush administration does it take to change a light bulb? 1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed; 2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed; 3. One to blame Clinton for burning out [&hellip;]<\/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-1745","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\/1745","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=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}