{"id":2422,"date":"2004-04-15T17:45:10","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T07:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/15\/speak-english-george\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:45:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:45:12","slug":"speak-english-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/15\/speak-english-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak English, George!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11258,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/truthout.org\\\/docs_04\\\/041504A.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/truthout.org\\\/docs_04\\\/041504A.shtml&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11259,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/32485&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051122222000\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/32485&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 14:58:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 14:58:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad I didn&#8217;t bother trying to watch Bush&#8217;s national address the other night on television. I would have been so busy cringing at his <em>first sentence<\/em> &#8212; &#8220;This has been tough weeks in that country.&#8221; &#8212; to even pay attention to the <a href=\"http:\/\/truthout.org\/docs_04\/041504A.shtml\" title=\"George and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamtie\">amazing hypnotic tie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/32485\" title=\"tie malfunction\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Annihilate&#8221; by Major North from the album <em>Junior Vasquez, Vol. 2<\/em> (1997, 5:20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so glad I didn&#8217;t bother trying to watch Bush&#8217;s national address the other night on television. I would have been so busy cringing at his first sentence &mdash; &#8216;This has been tough weeks in that country.&#8217; &mdash; to even pay attention to the amazing hypnotic tie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[6,14],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-humor","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}