{"id":526,"date":"2005-04-25T15:42:21","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T22:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=526"},"modified":"2008-04-22T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T22:44:31","slug":"al-franken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2005\/04\/25\/al-franken\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpapertickets.com\/event\/1562\" target=\"_blank\">Al                   Franken comes to Seattle May 9th<\/a> for a live radio broadcast!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>He                         also knew, even as a mere lad of 14, that this never                         would be just any romance, because the object of that                         rapturous gaze happened to be his cousin Eleanor. And                         not a distant cousin, located somewhere in the far branches                         of the family tree. Their mothers were sisters.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/04\/24\/AR2005042401406.html?referrer=emailarticle\" target=\"_blank\">Sometimes                             in order to marry your first cousin, you have to                             travel to a state that allows that<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gas prices are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/04\/23\/fleeing.the.pump.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">prompting                   more mass transit use<\/a>. Meanwhile, reports that thieves                   are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komo4.com\/stories\/36505.htm\" target=\"_blank\">syphoning                   tanks from park cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neat. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/articles\/050502fa_fact\" target=\"_blank\">Simulated                   patients<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2005\/04\/25\/al-franken\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Franken comes to Seattle May 9th for a live radio broadcast! He also knew, even as a mere lad of 14, that this never would be just any romance, because the object of that rapturous gaze happened to be his cousin Eleanor. And not a distant cousin, located somewhere in the far branches of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2005\/04\/25\/al-franken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Al Franken&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2005\/04\/25\/al-franken\/\" 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":[25,9,18,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-entertainment","category-green","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","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=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}