{"id":1493,"date":"2013-10-29T07:45:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2013-10-29T07:45:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T11:45:30","slug":"1493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/10\/29\/1493\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 29 October 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">07:45 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> HT to Benjamin Disraeli:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Barack Obama fell into the Potomac, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Harry Reid fell into the Potomac, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Nancy Pelosi fell into the Potomac, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged her out again, that would be a calamity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">And to Henry II (although often misquoted):<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will no one rid us of these asshole politicians?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Tie them all up in a sack, tie it shut, and toss it in the Potomac.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07:45 &#8211; HT to Benjamin Disraeli:\n<\/p>\n<p>The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Barack Obama fell into the Potomac, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Harry Reid fell into the Potomac, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/10\/29\/1493\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tuesday, 29 October 2013 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}