{"id":6772,"date":"2004-10-20T16:49:18","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T21:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/10\/20\/kerry-alert\/"},"modified":"2004-10-20T16:49:18","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T21:49:18","slug":"kerry-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/10\/kerry-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">\n<span class=\"articles\"><strong>What do you think of the color-coded terror alerts the Department of Homeland Security issues?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">I think Americans, sadly, laugh at it. They don&#8217;t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"><strong>Will you continue that program?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">No. I&#8217;m going to find some more thoughtful way of alerting America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Maybe he will do something similar to the French alert system with various shades of yellow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"Pics\/frenchalert.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Or more likely he will have a Diplomat Alert System where each successive level requires sending even more diplomats and weapons inspectors to address the problem. This was after all his plan to contain Saddam Hussien by doing what we had already been doing since the first Gulf War. <\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Or maybe a more &quot;thoughtful way&quot; would be this:<\/p>\n<table width=\"20%\" border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#FF6600\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><font color=\"#FFFFFF\">Nuisance Alert System<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Annoying Nuisance<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Increased Nuisance<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Nuisance<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Mild Nuisance<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think of the color-coded terror alerts the Department of Homeland Security issues? I think Americans, sadly, laugh at it. They don&#8217;t know what to do. Will you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772","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=6772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}