{"id":1853,"date":"2004-10-18T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2004-10-18T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T14:22:21","slug":"more-political-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"More political humor"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one is from William Gibson<\/a>:
\nPresident Bush goes to an elementary school to talk about the war.
\nAfter his talk, he offers to answer questions. One little boy puts up his hand and the president asks him his name.
\n“I’m Billy, sir.”
\n“And what’s your question, Billy?”
\n“I have three questions, sir. Why did the US invade Iraq without the support of the UN? Why are you President when Al Gore got more votes? And whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden?”
\nJust then the bell rings for recess. Bush announces that they’ll continue after recess.
\nWhen they return, Bush asks, “OK, where were we? Question time! Who has a question?”
\nAnother little boy raises his hand. The president asks his name.
\n“I’m Steve, sir.”
\n“And what’s your question, Steve?”
\n“I have five questions, sir. Why did the US invade Iraq without the support of the UN? Why are you President when Al Gore got more votes? Whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden? Why did the recess bell go off twenty minutes early? And what the heck happened to Billy?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one is from William Gibson: President Bush goes to an elementary school to talk about the war. After his talk, he offers to answer questions. One little boy puts up his hand and the president asks him his name. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}