{"id":736,"date":"2004-06-24T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/06\/thoughts_and_reefers\/"},"modified":"2004-06-24T12:13:07","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T19:13:07","slug":"thoughts_and_reefers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/06\/thoughts_and_reefers.html","title":{"rendered":"THOUGHTS AND REEFERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you for the thought: “They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why
\ndon’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it’s worked for over 200
\nyears, and heck, we’re not using it any more.” <\/P>
\n

Thank you for the references or, as we like to call them, reefers. This one: 24 mournful notes<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>. (“The playing of taps to honor
\nAmerica’s fallen soldiers is a familiar sound, but at thousands of military funerals these days, not
\nall is as it seems.”) And this one: “Please don’t kill me!”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (“With 152 executions under
\nhis belt as governor of Texas, should we really be surprised to learn that … our president, then
\ngovernor, mocked a woman after he condemned her to death? Puckering his lips, feminizing his
\neyes, and letting out in a desperate squeak, ‘Please don’t kill me!'”)<\/P>
\n

We’re still not back, but when temptation calls we can’t resist.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you for the thought: “They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it’s worked for over 200 years, and heck, we’re not using it any more.” Thank you for the references or, as we like to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-736","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-bS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}