{"id":1143,"date":"2004-10-02T17:39:45","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T01:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/02\/drivin-with-donald\/"},"modified":"2004-10-02T17:39:45","modified_gmt":"2004-10-03T01:39:45","slug":"drivin-with-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"drivin with Donald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/fafblog.blogspot.com\/2004_09_26_fafblog_archive.html#109664781417153432\">Fafblog!<\/a> didn&#8217;t exist, we&#8217;d wish we were clever enough to invent it:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">So we&#8217;re ridin on down the road in our Cross Country Journey of Inner Discovery and Of Course the American Dream when Donald Rumsfeld hits a moose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe we should stop an get a tow truck,&#8221; says me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gosh, that seems pretty excessive,&#8221; says Donald Rumsfeld. &#8220;I mean, was a moose hit? Yes. Do the antlers sticking through the windshield make driving trickier? You bet. But should we just turn around and quit because the road got a little bumpy? I&#8217;d say no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One thing about Donald Rumsfeld that you have to give him credit for is he always cuts through the crap to tell it like it is in his no-nonsense style. I am reminded of this when we hit the second moose.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fafblog.blogspot.com\/2004_09_26_fafblog_archive.html#109664781417153432\">Read the whole thing<\/a>. Link (and  the choice of quote) swiped from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/tools\/memadd.bml?journal=jmhm&#038;itemid=1015619\">Julia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Fafblog! didn&#8217;t exist, we&#8217;d wish we were clever enough to invent it: So we&#8217;re ridin on down the road in our Cross Country Journey of Inner Discovery and Of Course the American Dream when Donald Rumsfeld hits a moose. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}