{"id":9861,"date":"2018-10-02T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T16:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=9861"},"modified":"2018-10-02T23:47:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T03:47:31","slug":"explaining-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=9861","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

MY SON WAS FLUNKING OUT\u00a0OF COLLEGE SO I TOLD HIM, “YOU WILL MARRY THE GIRL I CHOOSE.”<\/p>\n

HE SAID, “NO.”<\/p>\n

I TOLD HIM, “SHE IS BILL GATES’ DAUGHTER.”<\/p>\n

HE SAID, “YES.”<\/p>\n

I CALLED BILL GATES AND SAID, “I WANT YOUR DAUGHTER TO MARRY MY SON.”<\/p>\n

BILL GATES SAID, “NO.”<\/p>\n

I TOLD BILL GATES, “MY SON IS THE CEO OF THE WORLD BANK.”<\/p>\n

BILL GATES SAID, “OK.”<\/p>\n

I CALLED THE PRESIDENT OF WORLD BANK AND ASKED HIM TO MAKE MY SON THE CEO.<\/p>\n

HE SAID, “NO.”<\/p>\n

I TOLD HIM, “MY SON IS BILL GATES’ SON-IN-LAW.”<\/p>\n

HE SAID, “OK.”<\/p>\n

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AND THAT\u2019S EXACTLY HOW POLITICS WORKS.<\/p>\n

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(Thanks to our friend Dick Inwood who sent this wonderful laugh to us this morning! – cg)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @ CG&A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MY SON WAS FLUNKING OUT\u00a0OF COLLEGE SO I TOLD HIM, “YOU WILL MARRY THE GIRL I CHOOSE.” HE SAID, “NO.” I TOLD HIM, “SHE IS BILL GATES’ DAUGHTER.” HE SAID, “YES.” I CALLED BILL GATES AND SAID, “I WANT YOUR DAUGHTER TO MARRY MY SON.” BILL GATES SAID, “NO.” I TOLD BILL GATES, “MY SON…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861"}],"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=9861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9863,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions\/9863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}