{"id":1693,"date":"2008-12-15T13:30:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T21:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2008\/12\/a_really_big_show_shoe\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T13:30:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T21:30:32","slug":"a_really_big_show_shoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2008\/12\/a_really_big_show_shoe.html","title":{"rendered":"A Really Big <strike>Show<\/strike> Shoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi TV journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/homepage\/story\/57803.html\">threw his shoes<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/08\/the_bullshitterinchief.html\">Bullshitter-in-Chief<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/09\/post_mortem.html\">not the first<\/a> to do it. The difference is Zaidi missed. But as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Sullivan_Show\">Ed Sullivan<\/a> used to say, he put on &#8220;a really big shew.&#8221; Too bad <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Se%C3%B1or_Wences\">Se\u00f1or Wences<\/a> isn&#8217;t around to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi TV journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi who threw his shoes at the Bullshitter-in-Chief is not the first to do it. The difference is Zaidi missed. But as Ed Sullivan used to say, he put on &#8220;a really big shew.&#8221; Too bad Se\u00f1or Wences isn&#8217;t around to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-rj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}