{"id":1343,"date":"2005-12-07T14:28:43","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T22:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/12\/no_penetration\/"},"modified":"2005-12-07T14:28:43","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T22:28:43","slug":"no_penetration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/12\/no_penetration.html","title":{"rendered":"NO PENETRATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/08\/jim_holts_criti.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Bullshitter-in-Chief<\/strong><\/font><\/a> &#8220;touted U.S. wartime successes&#8221; in Iraq and spoke of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/12\/07\/bush.iraq\/index.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;amazing progress&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> made there during the past two-and-a-half years.<br \/>\n<STRONG><i>ROCKS<\/strong><br \/>\nI think that I shall never push<br \/>\nA rock as stubborn as George Bush.<br \/>\nA rock whose lopsided bottom<br \/>\nIs covered over with something rottem.<br \/>\nA rock that looks at God all day<br \/>\nAnd has no rational thing to say.<br \/>\nA rock that thinks that it&#8217;s a boulder<br \/>\nThe world should heft upon its shoulder.<br \/>\nUpon this rock is built a hut<br \/>\nAnd in it lives a hard-shelled nut.<br \/>\nSpeeches are made to many a flock,<br \/>\nBut nothing penetrates this rock.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2004\/04\/hes_our_calvin.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8212; Leon Freilich<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;amazing progress&#8221; made there during the past two-and-a-half years. ROCKS I think that I shall never push A rock as stubborn as George Bush. A rock whose lopsided bottom Is covered over with something rottem. A rock that looks at God all day And has no rational thing to say. A rock that thinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-lF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}