{"id":975,"date":"2002-04-21T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-22T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=975"},"modified":"2002-04-21T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-22T02:58:00","slug":"another-gem-from-my-inbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/another-gem-from-my-inbox","title":{"rendered":"Another gem from my inbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little boy goes to his dad and asks, &#8220;What&#8217;s politics?&#8221;<br \/>\nDad says, &#8220;Well son, let me try to explain it this way:<br \/>\nI&#8217;m the breadwinner of the family, so let&#8217;s call me Capitalism.<br \/>\nYour Mom, she&#8217;s the administrator of the money, so we&#8217;ll call her the Government<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re here to take care of your needs, so we&#8217;ll call you the People.<br \/>\nThe nanny, we&#8217;ll consider her the Working Class. Now your baby brother,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ll call him the Future. ow, think about that and see if that makes sense.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said.<br \/>\nLater that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him.<br \/>\nHe finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper<br \/>\nSo the little boy goes to his parents&#8217; room and finds his mother sound asleep.<br \/>\nNot wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny&#8217;s room. Finding the door locked,<br \/>\nhe peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up<br \/>\nand goes  back to bed.  The next morning, the little boy says to his father,<br \/>\n&#8220;Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now.&#8221; The father says,<br \/>\n&#8220;Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe little boy replies,  &#8220;Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class,<br \/>\nthe Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future<br \/>\nis in deep shit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little boy goes to his dad and asks, &#8220;What&#8217;s politics?&#8221; Dad says, &#8220;Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I&#8217;m the breadwinner of the family, so let&#8217;s call me Capitalism. Your Mom, she&#8217;s the administrator of the money, so we&#8217;ll call her the Government We&#8217;re here to take care of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}