{"id":5142,"date":"2014-04-23T15:37:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T19:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5142"},"modified":"2014-04-23T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T19:40:19","slug":"contemporary-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5142","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we\u2019ll need a new definition. &#8212; Alvin Toffler<\/li>\n<li>You can\u2019t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you\u2019re doing is recording it. &#8212; Art Buchwald<\/li>\n<li>As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind &#8211; every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. &#8212; John Glenn<\/li>\n<li>When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said &#8216;Let us pray.&#8217; We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. &#8212; Desmond Tutu<\/li>\n<li>Kill one man and you&#8217;re a murderer, kill a million and you&#8217;re a conqueror. &#8212; Jean Rostand<\/li>\n<li>America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked. &#8212; David Letterman<\/li>\n<li>Lawyers believe a man is innocent until proven broke. &#8212; Robin Hall<\/li>\n<li>After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. &#8212; Italian proverb<\/li>\n<li>Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself. &#8212; Harrison Ford<\/li>\n<li>The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. &#8212; Spike Milligan<\/li>\n<li>The first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone. &#8212; George Roberts<\/li>\n<li>Having more money doesn&#8217;t make you happier. I have 50 million dollars but I&#8217;m just as happy as when I had 48 million. &#8212; Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/li>\n<li>Men are like linoleum floors. Lay &#8217;em right and you can walk all over them for thirty years. &#8212; Betsy Salkind<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither would take out the garbage. &#8212; Zsa Zsa Gabor<br \/>\nIf life were fair, Elvis would still be alive today and all the impersonators would be dead. &#8212; Johnny Carson<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and we&#8217;re very skeptical. &#8212; Arthur C. Clarke<\/li>\n<li>In hotel rooms I worry. I can&#8217;t be the only guy who sits on the furniture naked. &#8212; Jonathan Katz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>(ed. &#8211; Thank you to Dick Inwood for sending me a continuous stream of laughs each week. It is much appreciated! \u2013 cg)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we\u2019ll need a new definition. &#8212; Alvin Toffler You can\u2019t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you\u2019re doing is recording it. &#8212; Art Buchwald As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5143,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}