{"id":150,"date":"2004-06-23T15:13:17","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T20:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=150"},"modified":"2004-06-23T15:27:17","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T20:27:17","slug":"an-allegory-is-a-dangerous-reptile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"An allegory is a dangerous reptile."},"content":{"rendered":"

They’re right. Dick Cheney is one helluva poker player<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anybody who writes like that and has commenters posting things like this:<\/p>\n

I was playing poker last week with ashcroft. He had two pair and I had four kings. I thought I had him beat. When I showed him my cards, he siezed them and classified them as enemy combatants, Thus my cards lost their rights and were not subject to the rules of poker convention.<\/i><\/p>\n

Well, those people get added to my links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They’re right. Dick Cheney is one helluva poker player. Anybody who writes like that and has commenters posting things like this: I was playing poker last week with ashcroft. He had two pair and I had four kings. I thought I had him beat. When I showed him my cards, he siezed them and classified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-2q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":209,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=209","url_meta":{"origin":150,"position":0},"title":"My sign is stop.","date":"10\/20\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I've installed WP-Blacklist, so sonny@moonlightshadow.us and lilo@suddenenlightenment.us can stop with the zen poker comments. 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