{"id":6322,"date":"2004-11-08T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T14:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/11\/08\/when-parody-meets-reality\/"},"modified":"2004-11-08T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T14:39:45","slug":"when-parody-meets-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/11\/when-parody-meets-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"When parody meets reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">CLAMART, France (AP) &#8211; Yasser Arafat&#8217;s wife lashed out at his top lieutenants Monday, accusing them of traveling to Paris with plans to &quot;bury&quot; her husband &quot;alive.&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20041108\/D867ES200.html\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">And yesterday Scrappleface had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappleface.com\/MT\/archives\/001915.html\">this story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"><strong>Specter Backs Partial-Burial Abortion for Arafat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">(2004-11-07) &#8212; U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, R\/D-PA, today said that to resolve the condition of Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat, who is &quot;hovering between life and death,&quot; he favors a procedure which critics call &quot;partial-burial abortion.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;Of course, it&#8217;s Mrs. Arafat&#8217;s right to choose,&quot; said the future chairman of the senate judiciary committee, &quot;But to end her inconvenience, I would recommend what physicians call an INX, which stands for interment and expiration.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">If Mrs. Arafat chooses this option, her husband&#8217;s body will be lowered feet-first into the grave. When only the head remains above ground, a surgeon will use a pair of scissors at the base of his skull to remove his brain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;The beautiful thing about his procedure,&quot; said Mr. Specter, &quot;is that since Chairman Arafat wasn&#8217;t really alive, it won&#8217;t make him a Muslim martyr. Plus, it pro-actively fulfills the requirement of Islam for burial within 24 hours of death.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLAMART, France (AP) &#8211; Yasser Arafat&#8217;s wife lashed out at his top lieutenants Monday, accusing them of traveling to Paris with plans to &quot;bury&quot; her husband &quot;alive.&quot; [Source] And yesterday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}