{"id":15136,"date":"2003-03-18T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/18\/bretzels-for-bush\/"},"modified":"2003-03-18T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-18T17:57:00","slug":"bretzels-for-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/18\/bretzels-for-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bretzels For Bush&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/archive\/2003_03_09_archive.html#90522536\" target=\"_blank\">I mentioned the backlash towards France<\/a>&rsquo;s unwillingness to back any resolution authorizing force against Iraq, resulting in the lame renaming of French Fries to &ldquo;Freedom Fries&rdquo; at restaurants around the nation.  Well, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/europe\/03\/17\/offbeat.pretzels.reut\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">French have retaliated in this food fight<\/a>, starting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bretzelforbush.com\" target=\"_blank\">website selling pretzels<\/a> &ldquo;for seven euros ($7.56) each, with one euro going to a children&rsquo;s charity&hellip;before being sent to the White House in a historic mass action.&rdquo;  Although my natural tendency is to ridicule the French because they usually deserve it for one reason or another, I definitely give them credit for making fun of W in such a clever fashion.  Now stop being such assholes!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200005198?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I mentioned the backlash towards France&rsquo;s unwillingness to back any resolution authorizing force against Iraq, resulting in the lame renaming of French Fries to &ldquo;Freedom Fries&rdquo; at restaurants around the nation. Well, the French have retaliated in this food fight, starting a website selling pretzels &ldquo;for seven euros ($7.56) each, with one euro &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/18\/bretzels-for-bush\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Bretzels For Bush&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}