{"id":198693,"date":"2007-10-17T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/17\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-obama-and-cheney-are-cousins\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T03:49:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-obama-and-cheney-are-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/17\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-obama-and-cheney-are-cousins\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???  Obama and Cheney are Cousins?????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/16\/AR2007101602362.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img85.imageshack.us\/img85\/9270\/060524cheneyvsmall8pwidph2.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img85.imageshack.us\/img85\/5034\/brkdg3.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/16\/AR2007101602362.html\">Separated at Birth?<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>So, Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are 8th cousins.  There&#8217;s not much that I can say to add to that, but there is something that I can sing (to the tune of the Patty Duke Show Theme Song):<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic;\">Meet Barack, who&#8217;s lived as you can see,<br \/>From Jakarta to Hawaii.<br \/>But Dickey&#8217;s only seen the sight.<br \/>A goon can see while avoiding sunlight<br \/>What a crazy pair!<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;re cousins,<br \/>Identical cousins all the way.<br \/>One pair of matching bookends,<br \/>Different as night and day.<\/p>\n<p>Where Barack adores a good debate,<br \/>True equality, and fighting hate,<br \/>Our Dickey loves to play the troll,<br \/>And babies blood makes him lose control &#8212;<br \/>What a wild duet!<\/p>\n<p>Still, they&#8217;re cousins,<br \/>Identical cousins and you&#8217;ll find,<br \/>They laugh alike, they walk alike,<br \/>At times they even talk alike &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>You can lose your mind,<br \/>When cousins are two of a kind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separated at Birth? So, Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are 8th cousins. There&#8217;s not much that I can say to add to that, but there is something that I can sing (to the tune of the Patty Duke Show Theme Song): Meet Barack, who&#8217;s lived as you can see,From Jakarta to Hawaii.But Dickey&#8217;s only seen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,978,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-politics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198693"}],"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=198693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}