{"id":419,"date":"2003-12-14T09:13:06","date_gmt":"2003-12-14T09:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=419"},"modified":"2003-12-14T09:13:06","modified_gmt":"2003-12-14T09:13:06","slug":"saddam-caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/saddam-caught\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddam caught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/14\/international\/middleeast\/14WIRE-HUSSEIN.html\"> Now what? <\/a><\/p>\n<p>True story: Thursday night I had a dream in which I was in a large room with Saddam and George W. Bush. Seemed like it was a press conference. Saddam&#8217;s trying to be cute in a Gollum-like way; Bush, who isn&#8217;t buying it, walks straight over to Saddam and busts him in the mouth.<br \/>\n<P>Not saying my dream foretold Saddam&#8217;s capture or anything, just reportin&#8217; the facts as I remember &#8217;em.<br \/>\n<P>In blogging news, Side Salad has crafted a <a href=\"http:\/\/sidesalad.net\/archives\/001367.html\">Saddam Claus<\/a>. Because, you know, he had to. Question for the world: Could Saddam grow a beard that long in Nine Months?<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nBut seriously folks&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Weighing in on the capture:<\/b><P><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/3317945.stm\">BBC newsies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billscontent.com\/comments\/P1149_0_1_0\/\">Bill in Peoria says he looks like a demented Santa. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0107946\/2003\/12\/14.html#a1082\">Ed Cone<\/a> notes  that Howard Dean&#8217;s blog is on the case. <P><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.command-post.org\/iraq_index.html\">Command Post <\/a>headline: &#8220;Ace in the Hole.&#8221;  <P><br \/>\n(OK, I&#8217;m back to enjoying my Sunday now).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now what? True story: Thursday night I had a dream in which I was in a large room with Saddam and George W. Bush. Seemed like it was a press conference. Saddam&#8217;s trying to be cute in a Gollum-like way;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/saddam-caught\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}