{"id":450,"date":"2009-02-01T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2009-02-01T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T11:55:10","slug":"if_nothing_else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"If nothing else&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&#8230;the new guy at 1600 has some quality zingers written for him&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I am seriously glad to be here tonight at the annual Alfalfa dinner. I know that many you are aware that this dinner began almost one hundred years ago as a way to celebrate the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. If he were here with us tonight, the General would be 202 years old. And very confused.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Now, this hasn&#8217;t been reported yet, but it was actually Rahm&#8217;s idea to do the swearing-in ceremony again. Of course, for Rahm, every day is a swearing-in ceremony.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But don&#8217;t believe what you read. Rahm Emanuel is a real sweetheart. No, it&#8217;s true. Every week the guy takes a little time away to give back to the community. Just last week he was at a local school, teaching profanity to poor children.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But these are the kind of negotiations you have to deal with as President. In just the first few weeks, I&#8217;ve had to engage in some of the toughest diplomacy of my life. And that was just to keep my Blackberry. I finally agreed to limit the number of people who could email me. It&#8217;s a very exclusive list. How exclusive?  Everyone look at the person sitting on your left&#8217; Now look at the person sitting on your right. None of you have my email address.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the new guy at 1600 has some quality zingers written for him&#8230; &#8220;I am seriously glad to be here tonight at the annual Alfalfa dinner. I know that many you are aware that this dinner began almost one hundred years ago as a way to celebrate the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. If he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If nothing else&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}