{"id":617,"date":"2006-02-12T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=617"},"modified":"2006-02-12T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T22:38:09","slug":"shes-made-of-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"She&#8217;s made of wood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess we have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allheadlinenews.com\/articles\/7002366362\" target=\"_blank\">add a few items<\/a> to the &#8220;what you can&#8217;t bring on an airplane list&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I give the ACLU a week to come to her defense, citing that carting human skulls around is a basic freedom provided by the Constitution. You know, as long as the skull isn&#8217;t from a practicing Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>******<\/p>\n<p>If the Vice President <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=newsOne&#038;storyID=2006-02-12T212552Z_01_N12148881_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHENEY-ACCIDENT.xml\" target=\"_blank\">shoots a man in the woods<\/a>, does he make a sound?<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the victim had the presence of mind to drop a &#8220;Man, you&#8217;re such a Dick!&#8221; reference on his way into the ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>******<\/p>\n<p>In a moment of Olympic-ish clarity last night, I realized that as commercialized and overhyped as the Olympics have become, they still pale in comparison to pro sports. And I mean like albino Irish vampire pale.<\/p>\n<p>Speedskater Chad Hedrick won gold in the 5000-meter event last night, the first American to medal at the Olympics. We had heard his hype about trying to win five golds on a number of occasions, but not until moments before his race did we learn that yesterday was the anniversary of his grandmother&#8217;s death. Even after that, it seemed mostly brushed aside, save for Melissa Stark&#8217;s post-win interview, where she danced her way into getting the anniversary answer out of Hedrick, then pouncing with three quick &#8220;capitalize on the emotion&#8221; questions right after.<\/p>\n<p>Then that was it. No more grandmother comments. If this were the NFL, ESPN would spend a week breaking down Brett Favre&#8217;s thoughts and feelings about the hangnail his second cousin suffered in June 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing with the Olympics, the drunken liveblogging mission for the next opening ceremonies is now a must. The folks at EveryTwoYears\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytwoyears.com\/taxonomy\/term\/17\" target=\"_blank\">gave it a shot<\/a>, and while they covered each country rather thoroughly,\u00c2\u00a0it wasn&#8217;t funny. Not a big deal if you&#8217;re not <em>trying<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0to be funny, but there were times where you can tell an attempt is there and it&#8217;s&#8230; well, it&#8217;s not good.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;2008 Summer Games&#8230; gimme a case of brew and something to work with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess we have to add a few items to the &#8220;what you can&#8217;t bring on an airplane list&#8221;. I give the ACLU a week to come to her defense, citing that carting human skulls around is a basic freedom provided by the Constitution. You know, as long as the skull isn&#8217;t from a practicing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">She&#8217;s made of wood?<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}