{"id":13084,"date":"2011-12-07T12:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T20:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13084"},"modified":"2011-12-07T12:32:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T20:32:53","slug":"to-mark-this-solemn-day-im-having-a-luau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/to-mark-this-solemn-day-im-having-a-luau\/","title":{"rendered":"To Mark This Solemn Day, <i>I&#8217;m<\/i> Having a Luau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s hardest-hitting news story: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sidwell-friends-obama-school-pearl-harbor-day-menu-2011-12\">You&#8217;ll Never Guess What The Obama Kids&#8217; School Is Serving For Lunch Today<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/to-mark-this-solemn-day-im-having-a-luau\/pearl_harbor\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13086\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pearl_harbor-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"How could you, Sidwell?\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pearl_harbor-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pearl_harbor.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t care? Well, you should. It&#8217;s a &#8220;heavily Japanese-inspired menu, which includes Asian mushroom and oriental noodle soup, garlic roasted edamame, teriyaki chicken, and other more generally Asian options.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><em>Hellooooo!<\/em> It&#8217;s Pearl Harbor Day, when we should shun all things Japanese. I went out and spit on my Honda this morning, and there will be no garlic-roasted edamame under my roof until midnight.<\/p>\n<p>A minor point, but I&#8217;m sure you noticed it: the Obamas and other Washington elites send their children to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidwell.edu\/index.aspx\">school<\/a> run by the Quakers. Maybe a reporter with time to kill will look into that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quakerinfo.com\/quak_pce.shtml\">incongruity<\/a> someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s hardest-hitting news story: &#8220;You&#8217;ll Never Guess What The Obama Kids&#8217; School Is Serving For Lunch Today.&#8221; Don&#8217;t care? Well, you should. It&#8217;s a &#8220;heavily Japanese-inspired menu, which includes Asian mushroom and oriental noodle soup, garlic roasted edamame, teriyaki chicken, and other more generally Asian options.&#8221; Hellooooo! It&#8217;s Pearl Harbor Day, when we should shun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,56,3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-japan","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13084"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13100,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions\/13100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13084"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}