{"id":982,"date":"2004-12-08T11:47:58","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T19:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/12\/wit_and_wisdom\/"},"modified":"2004-12-08T11:47:58","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T19:47:58","slug":"wit_and_wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/12\/wit_and_wisdom.html","title":{"rendered":"WIT AND WISDOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>A reader writes in re: yesterday&#8217;s <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20041201.shtml#92602\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>KERIK CONNECTION<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>:<br \/>\n&#8220;Bernard Kerik was named Iraq&#8217;s interim interior minister through a misunderstanding. As a<br \/>\nformer NYC cop, he was an expert on hookers, not hookahs. Thus are insurgencies born.&#8221; In re:<br \/>\n<A class=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20041201.shtml#92602\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>HIGH COLONIC<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, he also<br \/>\nwrites: &#8220;Could an inside examination of Bush&#8217;s presidency be considered a solonoscopy?&#8221; And<br \/>\nlastly, in re: <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20041201.shtml#92610\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>COLIN POWELL&#8217;S NEW RAP<\/FONT><\/B><A>:<br \/>\n&#8220;After a Colinoscopy that lasted four years, Bush has decided that Powell was nothing more than<br \/>\na pain in the ass.&#8221;<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader writes in re: yesterday&#8217;s KERIK CONNECTION: &#8220;Bernard Kerik was named Iraq&#8217;s interim interior minister through a misunderstanding. As a former NYC cop, he was an expert on hookers, not hookahs. Thus are insurgencies born.&#8221; In re: HIGH COLONIC, he also writes: &#8220;Could an inside examination of Bush&#8217;s presidency be considered a solonoscopy?&#8221; And [&hellip;]<\/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-982","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-fQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}