{"id":374,"date":"2016-03-01T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=374"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:03:03","slug":"belly-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=374","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\" alt=\"belly-button-22\" width=\"638\" height=\"854\" 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\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toby had a belly button&#8230;a freakish big red one right in the center&#8230;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 Fox News picked up on the incident and made a giant &#8220;News Alert&#8221; stink, convincing their entire dull eyed, drooling American television audience that he was legit &#8211; and that he&#8217;d press the button and unleash the demons of nuclear hell (or whatever) if they didn&#8217;t do what he said.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that was it.\u00a0 The world ended as we knew it (and it really backfired on Fox 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&#8230;and that was just for starters.\u00a0 And every time he rested his pudgy finger on that big red button, the world went into a panic.\u00a0 He bullied everybody on Earth into being&#8230;.. better&#8230;OR ELSE!!!<\/p>\n<p>Huh!\u00a0 Wish I had thought of that.<\/p>\n<p><em>***Is Toby a terrorist?\u00a0 Yeah, technically.\u00a0 Is he a &#8220;bad guy&#8221;?\u00a0 Well, not in two paragraphs&#8230;but power goes hand in hand with corruption and tyranny, so it&#8217;ll get there eventually&#8230;it always does.\u00a0 On a happier note, we have advance copies of our new book &#8220;Marsha Mellow&#8217;s Blue-ish Freaks&#8221;.\u00a0 We&#8217;re already selling them to friends, let us know if you&#8217;re interested and can&#8217;t wait for the new website (w\/ paypal) to get one.\u00a0 -Marsha\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toby had a belly button&#8230;a freakish big red one right in the center&#8230;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 Fox News picked up on the incident and made a giant &#8220;News Alert&#8221; stink, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=374\" 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],"tags":[158,105,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"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=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}