{"id":48,"date":"2005-06-27T16:21:29","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T06:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/06\/27\/i-adoor-the-people\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T17:29:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T07:29:17","slug":"i-adoor-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/06\/27\/i-adoor-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"I a&#8217;door the people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- UnMarkedDown_2_01132526319--><\/p>\n<p>My political advisors tell me that I am not allowed to comment on the rumours that I am planning to run for the position of President of Australia. Apparently, it would be better to launch the campaign once Australia has become a republic first.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am permitted to clarify some of the basic tenets of the platform upon which I would run.<\/p>\n<p>Current laws require emergency exit signs to be erected in large buildings. However, it is not unusual to find those doors to be &#8220;alarmed&#8221;. (Must&#8230; not&#8230; make&#8230; pun&#8230;. It&#8217;s&#8230; unpresidential&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>If I were to become president, these signs would need to identify both the emergency and non-emergency exits, so you can easily find your way out of large retail establishments when you have had enough of school-holiday shopping crowds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential Platforms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[72,176],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-from-the-shower","tag-law","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}