{"id":231,"date":"2006-05-20T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2006-05-19T18:45:17","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T22:45:17","slug":"saturday-open-thread-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/05\/20\/saturday-open-thread-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counting down the weekends left here in my own home, but I&#8217;ll try not to bitch too much, since I know this is Mr FK&#8217;s last weekend at home before heading back to Baghdad (where today&#8217;s forecast calls for clear skies, and a high of 100, with an overnight low of 78).  Oh, I know he&#8217;ll just be hanging out on his hotel balcony with Laura Ingraham, but still, it&#8217;s a long way from home &#8211;  and sometimes it&#8217;s hard to find enough crushed ice to make a decent martini.  <\/p>\n<p>So it turns out that, despite having Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis,  diabetes, recovering from a stroke, almost dying in 1999 from Hepatitis C and a liver transplant, and something like 40 broken bones,  <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2006\/more\/05\/19\/bc.evelknievel.ap\/index.html?cnn=yes\">Evel Knievel isn&#8217;t dead yet<\/a> (hate to say it, but <a href=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/si\/2006\/more\/05\/19\/bc.evelknievel.ap\/t1_evel_ap.jpg\">that picture<\/a> looks kinda like <a href=\"http:\/\/mikemalloy.com\/images\/ravennyc\/m3.jpg\">Malloy<\/a>).  Go figure.  I coulda sworn he was dead (Evel, not Mike).<\/p>\n<p>In other news, no Rove indictment and no Jimmy Hoffa (unless they dug him up late last night or early this morning &#8211; I haven&#8217;t looked yet), but maybe &#8211; just maybe, we&#8217;ve captured one of the &#8220;top&#8221; Taliban commanders, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4998836.stm\">Mullah Dadullah<\/a>.  This would be the highest ranking military chief since Mullah Magilla Gorilla was captured with Mullah Dummah N&#8217;dummah. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting down the weekends left here in my own home, but I&#8217;ll try not to bitch too much, since I know this is Mr FK&#8217;s last weekend at home before heading back to Baghdad (where today&#8217;s forecast calls for clear skies, and a high of 100, with an overnight low of 78). Oh, I know [&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-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}