{"id":2618,"date":"2002-07-23T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2002-07-23T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2002-07-23T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2002-07-23T17:16:08","slug":"too-awful-not-to-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2618","title":{"rendered":"TOO AWFUL NOT TO BLOG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a world beset by terror and violence, it&#8217;s good to know that a simple pun can still make you queasy. A &#8216;tip&#8217; of the hat to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\" target=\"browser\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110002028\" target=\"browser\">&#8216;Best Of The Web Today&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Military Operations<br \/>\nTurkish troops leading the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan won friends among hundreds of Afghan families Tuesday after army doctors carried out a mass circumcision of boys who had missed the important Muslim ceremony for one reason or another,&#8221; Reuters reports from Kabul:<br \/>\n&#8220;It takes about five to eight minutes to do each person,&#8221; an army doctor told Reuters. &#8220;If you want, I would be happy to do you and your colleagues.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe dispatch doesn&#8217;t say if the wire service took the doc up on his offer. Nor does it say if the doctors received payment for their work, though we suspect they only took tips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m speechless. Laughing really hard, but speechless. This is almost a Feghoot (let&#8217;s see who remembers <u>those<\/u>)&#8230;<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world beset by terror and violence, it&#8217;s good to know that a simple pun can still make you queasy. A &#8216;tip&#8217; of the hat to the Wall Street Journal&#8216;s &#8216;Best Of The Web Today&#8217; Military Operations Turkish troops leading the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan won friends among hundreds of Afghan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}