{"id":44534,"date":"2010-08-11T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=44534"},"modified":"2010-08-11T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T15:21:10","slug":"obamas-latest-joke-republicans-and-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=44534","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s latest joke: Republicans and cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/08\/obamas-latest-joke-republicans.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a fundraiser here, he trotted out his latest joke, chuckling as he  told it. The punch line came after his usual story about refusing to  give Republicans back the keys to the economy because they drove it into  a ditch.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of cars, he said: &#8220;You want to go forward, what do you do?  You put it in &#8216;D.&#8217; When you go backward, what do you do? You put it in  &#8216;R.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, with another chuckle, he added: &#8220;I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217; that&#8217;s not a coincidence.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And when you want it in a condition where it doesn&#8217;t do anything by itself but can be easily pushed around, you put it in &#8216;N&#8217;. Welcome to the post-racial society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. At a fundraiser here, he trotted out his latest joke, chuckling as he told it. The punch line came after his usual story about refusing to give Republicans back the keys to the economy because they drove it into a ditch. Speaking of cars, he said: &#8220;You want to go forward, what do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44535,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44534\/revisions\/44535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}