{"id":455,"date":"2003-04-11T06:38:44","date_gmt":"2003-04-11T11:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=455"},"modified":"2003-04-11T06:38:44","modified_gmt":"2003-04-11T11:38:44","slug":"ill_take_the_ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/11\/ill_take_the_ne.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll take the next question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esquire presents &#8220;<a title=\"Esquire:Humor:This Way Out:Sex Tips from Donald Rumsfeld\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/humor\/thiswayout\/020601_mtw_rumsfeld.html\">Sex Tips from Donald Rumsfeld<\/a>.&#8221;  Anyone who&#8217;s listened to a any Pentagon briefings over the past few weeks should get a kick out of this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\"><b>Dear Secretary Rumsfeld<\/b>: My wife and I are happily married, but the spark seems to have gone out of our sex life. 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