{"id":716,"date":"2004-11-23T20:02:01","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T00:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2004-11-23T20:02:01","modified_gmt":"2004-11-24T00:02:01","slug":"ladies-and-gentlemen-the-leader-of-the-free-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Ladies and Gentlemen: The Leader of the Free World."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fly.jpg\" id=\"image715\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/fly.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I understand that every once in a while you leave the gate open, everyone does.        But I must say if I had people around me 24 hours a day that are paid to        protect my image because I just happen to represent the most prosperous        nation on the face of the planet I would hope some one let me know when        I&#8217;m walking around with my fly down. No, instead here stands our messenger        to the world with his fly down meeting with the leaders of great nations.        Could it be worse? I really don&#8217;t think could.<\/p>\n<p>The misLeader was in Brazil with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, as Prime Minister of Australia John Howard, right, talks with China&#8217;s President Hu Jintao, and Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong , top left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling Putin knew, you can see it in his eyes,  all those rides in Texas has taught him to expect nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that every once in a while you leave the gate open, everyone does. But I must say if I had people around me 24 hours a day that are paid to protect my image because I just happen to represent the most prosperous nation on the face of the planet I would hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-by","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}