{"id":400,"date":"2004-06-15T16:53:38","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T23:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=400"},"modified":"2008-04-15T16:54:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T23:54:42","slug":"but-i-wanted-two-fives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/06\/15\/but-i-wanted-two-fives\/","title":{"rendered":"But I wanted two fives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fidel <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3808431.stm\" target=\"_blank\">asked                   FDR for a $10 bill<\/a>, but only got a letter back.<\/p>\n<p>It was so weird listening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3806995.stm\" target=\"_blank\">portraits                   of Bill and Hillary Clinton unveiled<\/a>, because Dubya was                   the emcee and kept singing the former President and First Lady&#8217;s                   praises. Briefly, it reminded me when our country wasn&#8217;t so                   divided. An hour later, business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>A wussy <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3806181.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme                   Court decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Dean&#8217;s scream <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimthemedia.org\/stories.php?story=04\/06\/14\/7673952\" target=\"_blank\">was                   aired separately from the crowd applause<\/a>, thus distorting                   its emphasis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/06\/15\/but-i-wanted-two-fives\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fidel asked FDR for a $10 bill, but only got a letter back. It was so weird listening to the portraits of Bill and Hillary Clinton unveiled, because Dubya was the emcee and kept singing the former President and First Lady&#8217;s praises. Briefly, it reminded me when our country wasn&#8217;t so divided. An hour later, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/06\/15\/but-i-wanted-two-fives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;But I wanted two fives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/06\/15\/but-i-wanted-two-fives\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}