{"id":173,"date":"2003-09-15T13:20:42","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T13:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.ruudmedia.com\/gsc\/?p=173"},"modified":"2017-12-06T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T13:37:35","slug":"more-campaign-trail-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/more-campaign-trail-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"More campaign trail humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best joke at the weekend GOP convention, meanwhile, was probably the luncheon version of an old standard as told by U.S. Rep. Mary Bono. It rang true for Republican activists who have watching Democratic political consultant Garry South demolish their candidates over the years:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArnold is out on a boat with the pope,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd the boat\u2019s moving along, and the pope\u2019s hat flies off and lands in the water, 50 feet back. So Arnold says to the pope: \u2018I\u2019ll get it.\u2019 The pope watches Arnold climb over the railing and walk across water 50 feet to pick up the pope\u2019s hat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pope was amazed,\u201d she said. \u201cArnold walked on water. But the next day Garry South puts out a press release saying, \u2018Arnold Can\u2019t Swim.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best joke at the weekend GOP convention, meanwhile, was probably the luncheon version of an old standard as told by U.S. Rep. Mary Bono. It rang true for Republican activists who have watching Democratic political consultant Garry South demolish their candidates over the years: \u201cArnold is out on a boat with the pope,\u201d she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrysouthconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}