{"id":1896,"date":"2009-06-29T10:11:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2009-06-29T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:37:11","slug":"north-korea-and-the-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/06\/29\/north-korea-and-the-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea and the Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <strong><a title=\"story on HuffPo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/06\/24\/north-korea-threatens-to-_3_n_220001.html\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a><\/strong> to the story <em>North Korea Threatens To Wipe Out The U.S.  &#8220;Once And For All&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In response to this story, I posted <a title=\"HuffPo Comment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/06\/24\/north-korea-threatens-to-_3_n_220001.html?page=9&amp;show_comment_id=26130851#comment_26130851\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>the following comment<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reminds me of my cat when she wants attention in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>1. Meow loudly and repeatedly<\/p>\n<p>2. Jump up on the bed.<\/p>\n<p>3. Walk on my face.<\/p>\n<p>4. Jump up on the bureau.<\/p>\n<p>5. Start knocking glass objects onto the floor.<\/p>\n<p>When this cat wants attention, she will keep escalating until she gets it. It&#8217;s merely a question of how much I want broken before I give her the attention that she wants.<\/p>\n<p>Can we give this guy a little attention before we have to blast him off the Korean peninsula along with all his innocent subjects?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My comment generated quite a few reposnses.\u00a0 One of the most<strong> <a title=\"Simon's Cat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/06\/24\/north-korea-threatens-to-_3_n_220001.html?page=9&amp;show_comment_id=26132655#comment_26132655\" target=\"_blank\">intriguing comments<\/a><\/strong> was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Could be worse.  Have you seen &#8220;Simon&#8217;s Cat&#8221;?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help going to Google to try to find out what this comment meant.<\/p>\n<p>I found <a title=\"Simon's Cat on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/simonscat\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Simon&#8217;s Cat<\/strong><\/a> on YouTube.\u00a0 Here is the video, titled <a title=\"Let me in video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4rb8aOzy9t4&amp;feature=channel_page\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;Let me in&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0 that is most relevant to my post.\u00a0 Oh, wait, this one&#8217;s better &#8211; <a title=\"Cta wants to be fed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s13dLaTIHSg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Simon&#8217;s Cat &#8216;TV Dinner&#8217;<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Hold on, maybe this is the one &#8211; <a title=\"Wake Up Time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w0ffwDYo00Q\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Simon&#8217;s Cat  &#8216;Cat Man Do&#8217;<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the story North Korea Threatens To Wipe Out The U.S. &#8220;Once And For All&#8221;. In response to this story, I posted the following comment: Reminds me of my cat when she wants attention in the morning. 1. Meow loudly and repeatedly 2. Jump up on the bed. 3. Walk on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}