{"id":177,"date":"2010-07-28T07:19:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T14:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2010-07-28T07:26:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T14:26:47","slug":"no-calamari-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"No Calamari For You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a break from criticizing the United States and Israel. He now has a new enemy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2010\/07\/28\/iran-octopus-paul-is-a-symbol-of-western-decadence-and-decay-115875-22445376\/\">Paul the Octopus<\/a>. In a speech yesterday, Ahmadinejad condemned the World Cup predicting octopus as being a symbol of Western decadence and decay and all that is wrong with Western society. I&#8217;ve heard that, in response, Paul advised bettors to take Israel and the points in a nuclear war against Iran. Did the Iranian President jump the shark on this one? (Photo: Volker Hartmann, AP)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Admin\/BkFill\/Default_image_group\/2010\/7\/8\/1278549136196\/Paul-the-octopus-006.jpg\" alt=\"Paul the octopus\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a break from criticizing the United States and Israel. He now has a new enemy: Paul the Octopus. In a speech yesterday, Ahmadinejad condemned the World Cup predicting octopus as being a symbol of Western &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}