{"id":30550,"date":"2012-09-20T06:24:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T11:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30550"},"modified":"2012-09-20T07:33:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:33:42","slug":"things-president-obama-did-other-than-talking-with-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30550","title":{"rendered":"Things President Obama Did Other Than Talking With Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama\/statuses\/248501257055121409\">He&#8217;s a busy, busy man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/A3Lak6GCMAAdQg9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was in observance of &#8220;Talk Like A Pirate Day&#8221;, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we should respond with &#8220;Talk With An Israeli Prime Minister&#8221; day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0As commenter Jeff Rosenberg (Hey, Jeff!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30550&amp;cpage=1#comment-105412\">points out<\/a>, Media Matters has <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/fox-pirates-drudges-misleading-attack-on-obama\/190022\">leapt<\/a> to the President&#8217;s defense, noting that the photo above is three years old.<\/p>\n<p>The MM4A piece is silent on what the President <em>was<\/em> doing. \u00a0 Playing golf with Jay-Z? \u00a0Meeting with (and bowing to) Somali pirates? \u00a0 Playing video games with his daughters? \u00a0At an Eva Longoria fundraiser? \u00a0We don&#8217;t know. \u00a0All we\u00a0<em>do\u00a0<\/em>know is, it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu at this crucial moment in both nations&#8217; history&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s a busy, busy man. It was in observance of &#8220;Talk Like A Pirate Day&#8221;, yesterday. Perhaps we should respond with &#8220;Talk With An Israeli Prime Minister&#8221; day&#8230; UPDATE: \u00a0As commenter Jeff Rosenberg (Hey, Jeff!) points out, Media Matters has leapt to the President&#8217;s defense, noting that the photo above is three years old. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,131,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30552,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30550\/revisions\/30552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}