{"id":798,"date":"2006-02-15T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=798"},"modified":"2006-02-15T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T20:07:00","slug":"easy-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"Easy Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few readers have e-mailed asking why I didn&#8217;t post about the Dick Cheney incident. Yes, I suppose I could have given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/people\/2006-02-13-cheney-jokes_x.htm\">a one liner<\/a>. Or linked to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dickcheneyquailhunt.cf.huffingtonpost.com\/\">Dick Cheney hunting game<\/a>. Or linked to the <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/archives\/004550.htm\">video gags<\/a>. Or ranted on the fact that he <a href=\"http:\/\/leftwingview.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/cheney-did-not-have-hunting-license.html\">didn&#8217;t even have a hunting license<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I won&#8217;t blog about the topic since this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/14\/politics\/14whitehouse.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">no laughing matter. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides, Dick&#8217;s just too easy a target to make fun of. It&#8217;d be like shooting ducks in a barrel. Or quail in a fenced off pen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few readers have e-mailed asking why I didn&#8217;t post about the Dick Cheney incident. Yes, I suppose I could have given a one liner. Or linked to the Dick Cheney hunting game. Or linked to the video gags. Or ranted on the fact that he didn&#8217;t even have a hunting license. But I won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}