{"id":5707,"date":"2010-03-12T15:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2010-03-13T10:06:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T16:06:41","slug":"thats-not-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/thats-not-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Not Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A congressman and his constituent were walking in the woods when they came upon a metaphorical bear representing the insatiable appetite of an unsustainable set out outlays and deficit spending extending decades into the future.  The congressman sits down and starts putting on tennis shoes.  &#8220;Hey, you cannot outrun a metaphorical bear,&#8221; the constituent says.  The congressman replies, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have to outrun the metaphorical bear; I just have to outrun you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\">Update:<\/font> Thanks to Tam for the <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/hahahaha-ow.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A congressman and his constituent were walking in the woods when they came upon a metaphorical bear representing the insatiable appetite of an unsustainable set out outlays and deficit spending extending decades into the future. The congressman sits down and starts putting on tennis shoes. &#8220;Hey, you cannot outrun a metaphorical bear,&#8221; the constituent says. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5709,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions\/5709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}