{"id":188397,"date":"2010-10-05T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/05\/barack-obama-watch-this-and-learn\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T00:45:00","slug":"barack-obama-watch-this-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/05\/barack-obama-watch-this-and-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama, Watch This and Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 310px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object height=\"193\" width=\"298\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WHoL86SPKVk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WHoL86SPKVk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"193\" width=\"298\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Why yes, that <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">is<\/span> the President of Bolivia, and he <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is<\/span> driving someone&#8217;s testicles to the top of Nevado Sajama<sup>*<\/sup> (0:35)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Someone had the grand idea of having political rivals in Bolivia play a friendly game of football (soccer).<\/p>\n<p>So, when you have political enemies on the field, what happens?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it appears that there <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/05\/bolivian-presidents-knee-meets-opponents-groin\/\">was a bit of rough play<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>During a soccer match between teams of political rivals in Bolivia, the country\u2019s president, Evo Morales, was caught on tape delivering a swift knee to an opponent\u2019s groin in retaliation for a hard foul.<\/p>\n<p>As Rory Carroll reported for The Guardian, the incident took place on Sunday in the Bolivian capital, La Paz, as the president\u2019s men took on a team led by the city\u2019s mayor, Luis Revilla.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Obama, the next time that John Boehner opens his mouth, take your cue from Bolivian President Evo Moralez, please.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">The tallest mountain in Bolivia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why yes, that is the President of Bolivia, and he is driving someone&#8217;s testicles to the top of Nevado Sajama* (0:35) Someone had the grand idea of having political rivals in Bolivia play a friendly game of football (soccer). So, when you have political enemies on the field, what happens? Well, it appears that there &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1068,1057,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-latin-america","category-sports","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188397"}],"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=188397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}