{"id":4718,"date":"2008-08-29T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T07:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/29\/happy-birthday-senator-mccain\/"},"modified":"2008-08-29T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T07:20:04","slug":"happy-birthday-senator-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4718","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Senator McCain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 72nd birthday, Johnny Mac! Here, just for fun I found some pictures from your 69th birthday, which was three years ago, August 29, 2005.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/slide_155_0.jpeg\" title=\"slide_155_0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/slide_155_0.jpeg\" alt=\"slide_155_0.jpeg\" width=\"402\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mccaincake.jpg\" title=\"mccaincake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mccaincake.jpg\" alt=\"mccaincake.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huh. August 29, 2005. Something else happened that day, I think. But what could it be? What could have been happening right at the same time as this fun event with your pal Dubya?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/katrina_close.jpg\" title=\"katrina_close.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/katrina_close.jpg\" alt=\"katrina_close.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/050901-katrina2-l.jpg\" title=\"050901-katrina2-l.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/050901-katrina2-l.jpg\" alt=\"050901-katrina2-l.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/katrina.jpg\" title=\"katrina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/katrina.jpg\" alt=\"katrina.jpg\" width=\"436\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/katrina_dead.jpg\" title=\"katrina_dead.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/katrina_dead.jpg\" alt=\"katrina_dead.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh well, I\u2019m sure it wasn\u2019t anything that would have caused you and George to turn down a chance to party.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun naming your veep today, John. Good symbolism, picking your vice president on the third anniversary of your 69th birthday, and whatever else happened three years ago today. Nice sensitivity. Stay classy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 72nd birthday, Johnny Mac! Here, just for fun I found some pictures from your 69th birthday, which was three years ago, August 29, 2005. \u00a0 Huh. August 29, 2005. Something else happened that day, I think. But what could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4718\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-katrina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}