{"id":185990,"date":"2014-06-24T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/24\/i-so-want-to-see-this-covered-on-the-daily-show\/"},"modified":"2014-06-24T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T00:06:00","slug":"i-so-want-to-see-this-covered-on-the-daily-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/24\/i-so-want-to-see-this-covered-on-the-daily-show\/","title":{"rendered":"I So Want to See this Covered on the Daily Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/FrQ82ce.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/FrQ82ce.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/><\/a>While posing for a photograph, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jun\/23\/us-student-rescued-giant-vagina-sculpture-germany\">American student fell off a statue of a <b><span style=\"font-size: 110%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Giant Vagina<\/span><\/b> and had to be rescued by firemen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Friday afternoon, a young American in T\u00fcbingen had to be rescued by 22 firefighters after getting trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina. The <i>Chac\u00e1n-Pi<\/i> (Making Love) artwork by the Peruvian artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delajara.com\/EN\/werke-skulpturen.php\" title=\"\">Fernando de la Jara<\/a>  has been  outside T\u00fcbingen University&#8217;s institute for microbiology and  virology since 2001 and had previously mainly attracted juvenile  sniggers rather than adventurous explorers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to De la Jara, the 32-ton sculpture made out of red Veronese marble is meant to signify &#8220;the gateway to the world&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Police confirmed that the firefighters turned midwives delivered the student &#8220;by hand and without the application of tools&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The mayor of T\u00fcbingen told the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that he struggled to imagine how the accident could have happened, &#8220;even when considering the most extreme adolescent fantasies. To reward such a masterly achievement with the use of 22 firefighters almost pains my soul.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want this to get the <i>Daily Show<\/i> treatment.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure what is weirder, the Germans having a giant vagina sculpture, or someone getting stuck in it.<\/p>\n<p>Help me Jon Stewart, you&#8217;re my only hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While posing for a photograph, an American student fell off a statue of a Giant Vagina and had to be rescued by firemen: \u2026\u2026\u2026On Friday afternoon, a young American in T\u00fcbingen had to be rescued by 22 firefighters after getting trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina. The Chac\u00e1n-Pi (Making Love) artwork by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1167,984,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-art","category-europe","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185990"}],"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=185990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}