{"id":3744,"date":"2003-04-03T11:01:02","date_gmt":"2003-04-03T16:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2003-04-03T11:01:02","modified_gmt":"2003-04-03T16:01:02","slug":"on_the_lighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/03\/on_the_lighter.html","title":{"rendered":"On the lighter side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to show I have a sense of humor about things, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">&#8220;We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There&#8217;s just one problem &#8212; it&#8217;s in North Korea.&#8221; &#8212; Jon Stewart <br \/>\n&#8220;War continues in Iraq. They&#8217;re calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were going to call it Operation Iraqi Liberation until they realized that spells &#8216;OIL.'&#8221; &#8212; Jay Leno <br \/>\n&#8220;CNN said that after the war, there is a plan to divide Iraq into three parts &#8230; regular, premium and unleaded.&#8221; &#8212; Jay Leno<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamersnook.com\/blog\/archives\/001078.html\">Scott<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to show I have a sense of humor about things, too. &#8220;We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. 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