{"id":936,"date":"2004-05-14T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=936"},"modified":"2018-08-13T18:52:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T23:52:05","slug":"936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/936\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/americas\/05\/14\/cuba.us.march.ap\/index.html\" target=\"new\">some absurdity remains in the world<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Cuban President Fidel Castro launched an immense anti-American protest on Friday with denunciations and ridicule of President Bush, saying the U.S. leader was fraudulently elected and trying to impose &#8220;world tyranny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban leader led a sea of Cubans past the U.S. diplomatic mission here on the oceanfront Malecon Boulevard in a demonstration organized by the communist government against new U.S. measures aimed at squeezing the island&#8217;s economy and pushing out Castro.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd chanted &#8220;Free Cuba! Fascist Bush!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you sure they weren&#8217;t using a noun of direct address in their chants?  &#8220;Free Cuba, fascist Bush!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to remember that some absurdity remains in the world: Cuban President Fidel Castro launched an immense anti-American protest on Friday with denunciations and ridicule of President Bush, saying the U.S. leader was fraudulently elected and trying to impose &#8220;world tyranny.&#8221; The Cuban leader led a sea of Cubans past the U.S. diplomatic mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23327,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/23327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}