{"id":578,"date":"2004-01-08T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2018-08-09T17:04:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T22:04:37","slug":"578","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/08\/578\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching An Old Joke New Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A baby boomer father and son, walking in the forest, come upon a grizzly bear.  The father immediately opens a box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts and begins stuffing glazed doughnuts down his craw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; the son said.  &#8220;You can&#8217;t earn enough to pay taxes to offset the increased entitlements that politicians are enacting to buy your vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to earn enough,&#8221; the father said.  &#8220;I only have to have a coronary before the bear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A60596-2004Jan6.html\" target=\"new\">metaphorically represents the impending fiscal collapse<\/a> catches us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not the zaniest link to a Robert Samuelson column ever, I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baby boomer father and son, walking in the forest, come upon a grizzly bear. The father immediately opens a box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts and begins stuffing glazed doughnuts down his craw. &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; the son said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t earn enough to pay taxes to offset the increased entitlements that politicians are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22456,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/22456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}