{"id":1234,"date":"2004-08-26T11:55:42","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T19:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:06:21","slug":"humph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=1234","title":{"rendered":"Humph."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--109353628244864367--><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2004\/olympics\/2004\/08\/26\/bc.oly.bushad.ap\/index.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The ad<\/strong><\/a><\/em><em> shows a swimmer and the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan.<br \/>\n&#8220;In 1972, there were 40 democracies in the world. Today, 120,&#8221; an announcer says. &#8220;Freedom is spreading throughout the world like a sunrise. At this Olympics there will be two more free nations. And two fewer terrorist regimes.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Humph. Shouldn&#8217;t it read more like &#8220;At this Olympics there will be two more nations &#8230; nations that are now in turmoil because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/archive\/bush.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bush Adminstration&#8217;s imperial policies<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ad shows a swimmer and the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan. &#8220;In 1972, there were 40 democracies in the world. Today, 120,&#8221; an announcer says. &#8220;Freedom is spreading throughout the world like a sunrise. At this Olympics there will be two more free nations. And two fewer terrorist regimes.&#8221; Humph. Shouldn&#8217;t it read more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8EnCu-humph","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10735,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/10735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}