{"id":233675,"date":"2023-04-24T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=233675"},"modified":"2023-04-18T06:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T05:43:39","slug":"begging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/04\/begging\/","title":{"rendered":"Begging?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">What is wrong with this scene?<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_233589\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/uncle-sam-begger.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233589\" class=\"size-full wp-image-233589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/uncle-sam-begger.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/uncle-sam-begger.webp 441w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/uncle-sam-begger-300x203.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-233589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Source: Joel Pett, Lexington Herald-Leader, Cartoonists Rights Network International; tunnelwall.blogspot.com]<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Answer:<\/em> Empires don&#8217;t beg. Uncle Sam buys, imposes, steals, overthrows, deceives, bribes, corrupts, forces, subverts, invades, occupies, cheats, lies, kills, bombs, sanctions, threatens,\u00a0 maims, destroys, &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Capiche?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/imoji-pensativo-e1679217940235.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-182057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/imoji-pensativo-e1679217940235.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><em><strong>The joke is <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">on you<\/span>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is wrong with this scene?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":182057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-233675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week","tag-joke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233675"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233758,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233675\/revisions\/233758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}