{"id":2591,"date":"2009-03-17T08:42:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2009-03-17T08:42:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:42:35","slug":"is-it-wrong-that-i-laughed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/03\/17\/is-it-wrong-that-i-laughed\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Wrong, That I Laughed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29733519\/\">in a radio interview regarding the AIG execs, yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I suggest, you know, obviously, maybe they ought to be removed,&#8221; Grassley said. &#8220;But I would suggest the first thing that would make me feel a little bit better toward them if they&#8217;d follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say, I&#8217;m sorry, and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And in the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Probably a bit over the line, and wrong to laugh.  But I did anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), in a radio interview regarding the AIG execs, yesterday: &#8220;I suggest, you know, obviously, maybe they ought to be removed,&#8221; Grassley said. &#8220;But I would suggest the first thing that would make me feel a little bit better toward them if they&#8217;d follow the Japanese example and come before the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[105,110,111],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","tag-aig","tag-grassley","tag-hari-kari"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}