{"id":8257,"date":"2003-08-20T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=8257"},"modified":"2024-06-08T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T20:24:42","slug":"free-willy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2003\/08\/20\/free-willy\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Willy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems that Keiko, the killer whale from the Free Willy flicks doesn&#8217;t want to go to the wild after all. More&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/ap\/20030820\/ap_en_ot\/wkd_un_free_willy_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of creatures who missed the point, here are some tales about stupid&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/Midwest\/08\/18\/offbeat.naked.statue.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">neighbors<\/a>, race-baiting Bush websites (<a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2084778\/device\/html30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original<\/a>&nbsp;and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewbush.com\/News\/photoalbum.aspx?gallery=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corrected<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; check the middle pic on the bottom &#8211; editions), and oversized&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2087131\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">little leaguers<\/a>&nbsp;just to round out the mix of madness. (For more on the original version of that &#8220;tasteful&#8221; website, go&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2087192\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just because I can, a little more invective, courtesy of August 9th&#8217;s Doonesbury:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/Image\/humor\/db.gif?w=625\" alt=\"Doonesbury cartoon\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yes, we are fine&#8230;the flooding was on the other side of town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Keiko, the killer whale from the Free Willy flicks doesn&#8217;t want to go to the wild after all. More&nbsp;here. Speaking of creatures who missed the point, here are some tales about stupid&nbsp;neighbors, race-baiting Bush websites (original&nbsp;and &#8220;corrected&#8221; &#8211; check the middle pic on the bottom &#8211; editions), and oversized&nbsp;little leaguers&nbsp;just to round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments-and-observations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8258,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions\/8258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}