{"id":185,"date":"2003-02-10T18:51:46","date_gmt":"2003-02-10T18:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/10\/clam-up\/"},"modified":"2007-03-17T21:59:11","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T01:59:11","slug":"clam-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/10\/clam-up\/","title":{"rendered":"CLAM UP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another group that takes a more irreverent approach to peaceful protest is <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clamsforpeace.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clams for Peace<\/a><\/em>, a website that advocates, well, sending a box of clams to the White House in order to convince &#8220;President&#8221; Bush to, uh &#8230; think about, um, <em>something<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let them speak for themselves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 1950&#8217;s, tens of thousands of people sent small bags of rice to President Eisenhower convincing him not to attack China. It&#8217;s a new millennium with the same problems, rice is for suckers, clams are the choice of a new generation about to head off to war. We urge you the public to grab a box, grab some clams, and send them to George Bush to let him know that &#8220;hey this is a box of clams, deal with this Chimpy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you go. And remember: <strong><em>If you send no clams, you are all for children being shot in the knee caps and being left for dead!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another group that takes a more irreverent approach to peaceful protest is Clams for Peace, a website that advocates, well, sending a box of clams to the White House in order to convince &#8220;President&#8221; Bush to, uh &#8230; think about, um, something. I&#8217;ll let them speak for themselves: In the 1950&#8217;s, tens of thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-war-and-peace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-2Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}