{"id":182763,"date":"2015-06-11T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/11\/f-them-if-they-cant-take-a-joke\/"},"modified":"2015-06-11T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T01:36:00","slug":"f-them-if-they-cant-take-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/11\/f-them-if-they-cant-take-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"F%$# Them if They Can&#8217;t Take a Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sepp Blatter is still running FIFA, and he just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/0\/football\/33099881\">fired FIFA&#8217;s public relations weasel for telling a very funny joke about the current scandal<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Fifa communications director Walter De Gregorio has been sacked after sealing his fate with a joke about the governing body on Swiss TV. <\/p>\n<p>Gregorio told Swiss chat show Schawinski: &#8220;The Fifa president, secretary general and communications director are all travelling in a car. Who&#8217;s driving? <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">The police<\/span><\/b>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Fifa announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/about-fifa\/news\/y=2015\/m=6\/news=walter-de-gregorio-to-leave-fifa-2646249.html?\">in a statement <\/a> that De Gregorio had &#8220;relinquished his office&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>But the BBC understands he was asked to leave by president Sepp Blatter. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry, but this is funny, and Sepp Blatter is such a delicate flower.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how sensitive corrupt bureaucrats are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sepp Blatter is still running FIFA, and he just fired FIFA&#8217;s public relations weasel for telling a very funny joke about the current scandal: Fifa communications director Walter De Gregorio has been sacked after sealing his fate with a joke about the governing body on Swiss TV. Gregorio told Swiss chat show Schawinski: &#8220;The Fifa &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1048,1057,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-humor","category-sports","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}