{"id":555,"date":"2009-05-17T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=555"},"modified":"2009-05-17T20:08:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T00:08:10","slug":"when-euphemisms-mislead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"When Euphemisms Mislead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/78768\/\">InstaPundit<\/a> writes that if Obama takes Nick Gillespie&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/17\/opinion\/17gillespie.html?_r=3&#038;ref=instapundit\">advice<\/a> to legalize and tax drugs, gambling, and prostitution, &#8220;it&#8217;ll be your patriotic duty to smoke dope and sleep with hookers&#8221;. My knowledge of hookers is purely theoretical, but surely if you&#8217;re actually sleeping with them you&#8217;re wasting your money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InstaPundit writes that if Obama takes Nick Gillespie&#8217;s advice to legalize and tax drugs, gambling, and prostitution, &#8220;it&#8217;ll be your patriotic duty to smoke dope and sleep with hookers&#8221;. My knowledge of hookers is purely theoretical, but surely if you&#8217;re actually sleeping with them you&#8217;re wasting your money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}