{"id":593,"date":"2009-02-23T00:45:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T00:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2009-02-23T00:45:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T00:45:58","slug":"that-infamous-stimulus-bill-chimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"That infamous stimulus bill chimp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s this infamous political cartoon that everyone was so upset about:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_595\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-595\" class=\"size-full wp-image-595\" title=\"Stimulus bill chimp\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/nyp.jpg\" alt=\"Stimulus bill chimp\" width=\"429\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/nyp.jpg 429w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/nyp-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stimulus bill chimp<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But&#8230; why? All I see is a clever political cartoon suggesting that the stimulus bill is so stupid, it must have been written by a chimp, perhaps the cimp that police shot the other day, so they need a new one to write the next bill.<\/p>\n<p>Not in my wildest dreams did it occur to me to view this cartoon as racist. With all due respect, not in my wildest dreams would it occur to me that an intelligent person might compare Barack Obama to a chimp. I doubt it occurred to Barack Obama either. He doesn&#8217;t strike me as a person who takes offense when none was intended.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=593' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s this infamous political cartoon that everyone was so upset about: But&#8230; why? All I see is a clever political cartoon suggesting that the stimulus bill is so stupid, it must have been written by a chimp, perhaps the cimp that police shot the other day, so they need a new one to write the <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=593' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}