{"id":1266,"date":"2019-05-20T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2019-05-20T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:00:41","slug":"belly-button-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Belly Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/belly-button-22.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-375\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-375\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/belly-button-22-224x300.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/belly-button-22-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/belly-button-22-768x1029.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/belly-button-22-764x1024.jpg 764w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/belly-button-22.jpg 1470w\" alt=\"belly-button-22\" width=\"638\" height=\"854\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toby had a belly button\u2026a freakish big red one right in the center, and he was threatening to use it, too.\u00a0 He showed up at the White House during a political fundraiser demanding an audience and got laughed out of the place.\u00a0 The cable news outlets picked up on the incident and made a giant \u201cNews Alert\u201d stink, convincing the entire dull eyed, drooling American television audience that he was legit \u2013 and that he\u2019d press the button and unleash the demons of nuclear hell (or whatever) if they didn\u2019t do what he said.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that was it.\u00a0 The world ended as we knew it (and it really backfired on the media who figured he was their puppet).\u00a0 Toby brought an end to all wars and banned usury (which pretty much ruined capitalism). \u00a0He stopped fossil fuel use and forced everybody to respect the environment\u2026and that was just for starters.\u00a0 Every time he rested his pudgy finger on that big red button, the world went into a panic.\u00a0 He managed to bully everybody on Earth into being\u2026.. better\u2026OR ELSE!!!<\/p>\n<p>Huh!&#8230;I wish I had thought of that.<\/p>\n<p><em>***Is Toby a terrorist?\u00a0 Sure!\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Is he a \u201cbad guy\u201d?\u00a0 Well, not within two paragraphs\u2026but power goes hand in hand with corruption and tyranny, so he\u2019ll get there eventually\u2026always will.\u00a0 This is a piece from our 5th book, &#8220;Body-Oddies&#8221; which will not be published until 2020.\u00a0 On the upside, you can buy our first 3 books at www.sallemander.com or by searching EEWbooks at etsy.com.\u00a0 \u00a0-Marsha\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toby had a belly button\u2026a freakish big red one right in the center, and he was threatening to use it, too.\u00a0 He showed up at the White House during a political fundraiser demanding an audience and got laughed out of the place.\u00a0 The cable news outlets picked up on the incident and made a giant &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Belly Button<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118,150],"tags":[250,210,105,128,248,38,176,99,10,19,96,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}