{"id":2762,"date":"2010-02-16T06:42:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T11:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2010-02-16T06:42:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T11:42:43","slug":"fat-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2010\/02\/16\/fat-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, everybody&#8217;s heard the earth-shattering news that Evan Bayh has decided to retire from the Senate because of all the partisan rancor.  There&#8217;s some speculation that he&#8217;s thinking of running for President, but I figure it means there&#8217;ll be a new sex tape coming out any day now (possibly featuring Bayh in a compromising position with John Edwards).  My guess is that Bayh&#8217;s a bottom. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/02\/15\/mullah-abdul-ghani-baradar-captured-taliban_n_463308.html\">A &#8220;secret raid&#8221; in Pakistan has netted us another &#8220;#2&#8221; guy<\/a> &#8211; this time the supposed Taliban number two man and top commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (who I thought was rumored to be dead after a drone attack last week).  A Taliban spokesman, however, said &#8220;no you di-in&#8217;t.&#8221;  So, we shall see. <\/p>\n<p>Oh well, I think I&#8217;ll go try and figure out what to give up for Lent.  I&#8217;ve narrowed the choices down to beer, and work.  Unfortunately, I need to work to afford the beer, and I need the beer to make work bearable.  Kind of a Sophie&#8217;s choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, everybody&#8217;s heard the earth-shattering news that Evan Bayh has decided to retire from the Senate because of all the partisan rancor. There&#8217;s some speculation that he&#8217;s thinking of running for President, but I figure it means there&#8217;ll be a new sex tape coming out any day now (possibly featuring Bayh in a compromising [&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-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","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=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}