{"id":3245,"date":"2011-11-14T07:42:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T12:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2011-11-14T07:42:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T12:42:45","slug":"bachmannalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3245","title":{"rendered":"Bachmannalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/11\/13\/367236\/bachmann-iraq-pay-us-back\/\">Michelle Bachmann<\/a>&nbsp;has some interesting ideas on how to pay for the Iraq war, namely, the Iraqis should pay for it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s over 800 billion dollars that we have expended [in Iraq]. <strong>I believe that Iraq should pay us back for the money that we spent, and I believe that Iraq should pay the families that lost a loved one several million dollars per life<\/strong>, I think at minimum.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#39;s been a long time that she has superpassed plausible parody; why not just run Stephen Colbert in her place.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, however, she seems to think at least that the war has cost money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Bachmann&nbsp;has some interesting ideas on how to pay for the Iraq war, namely, the Iraqis should pay for it: It&rsquo;s over 800 billion dollars that we have expended [in Iraq]. I believe that Iraq should pay us back for the money that we spent, and I believe that Iraq should pay the families that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3245\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bachmannalia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1180,1013,895],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-iron-man","tag-michelle-bachmann","tag-poes-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}