{"id":1205,"date":"2008-11-26T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2008-11-26T06:44:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T11:44:52","slug":"wednesday-open-thread-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/11\/26\/wednesday-open-thread-124\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dream last night that Barack Obama was riding into a small Western town on a horse.  In the town, the people were preparing to welcome their new president by presenting him with a laurel, and hearty handshake.  Problem is, they didn&#8217;t realize he was black, except for this Gabby Hayes-looking guy up on a rooftop with a spyglass, speaking authentic frontier gibberish (I think it was dubya wearing a fake beard).  He saw Obama approaching, and was trying to yell out, &#8220;the President&#8217;s a n&#8230;&#8221; but the town&#8217;s church bell kept ringing, and they thought he was saying, &#8220;the President&#8217;s a-comin&#8217;!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I woke up, and my bed was filled with Howard Johnson&#8217;s ice cream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dream last night that Barack Obama was riding into a small Western town on a horse. In the town, the people were preparing to welcome their new president by presenting him with a laurel, and hearty handshake. Problem is, they didn&#8217;t realize he was black, except for this Gabby Hayes-looking guy up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}