{"id":724,"date":"2004-11-29T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T19:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2004\/11\/29\/thanksgiving-column\/"},"modified":"2004-11-29T13:44:38","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T19:44:38","slug":"thanksgiving-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2004\/11\/29\/thanksgiving-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to post this editorial up on Thanksgiving, but as usual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/25\/opinion\/25friedman.html?ex=1259125200&#038;en=a3f07afd295f693e&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">Thomas Friedman wrote an excellent opinion piece for the NYTimes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, I want to get almost the entire Republican side of the House of Representatives to bend its ethics rules just for me. I want to be able to twist the arms of House Republicans to repeal a rule that automatically requires party leaders to step down if they are indicted on a felony charge &#8211; something a Texas prosecutor is considering doing to DeLay because of corruption allegations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorite, since I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuh2.com\">love the H2<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If I can&#8217;t be The Man, then I at least want to be the owner of a Hummer &#8211; with American flag decals all over the back bumper, because Hummer owners are, on average, a little more patriotic than you and me. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, I want to drive the mother of all gas-guzzlers that gets so little mileage you have to drive from gas station to gas station. Yes, I want to drive my Hummer and never have to think that by consuming so much oil, I am making transfer payments to the worst Arab regimes that transfer money to Islamic charities that transfer money to madrassas that teach children intolerance, antipluralism and how to hate the infidels. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to post this editorial up on Thanksgiving, but as usual Thomas Friedman wrote an excellent opinion piece for the NYTimes: Yes, I want to get almost the entire Republican side of the House of Representatives to bend its ethics rules just for me. I want to be able to twist the arms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-bG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}