{"id":613,"date":"2012-04-09T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=613"},"modified":"2012-04-09T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:48:14","slug":"because-nothing-says-respect-for-the-presidency-like-pounding-the-presidents-face-into-the-ground-over-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/because-nothing-says-respect-for-the-presidency-like-pounding-the-presidents-face-into-the-ground-over-over-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Because nothing says &#8220;Respect for the Presidency&#8221; like pounding the President&#8217;s face into the ground over &amp; over again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2012\/04\/09\/Easter-Egg-Basketball-Obama\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/Obama-basketball.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At yesterday\u2019s Easter Egg Roll at the White House, President Obama\u2019s staff had a very special treat for the kids: a basketball clinic featuring NBA players. And there was a second special treat for the children: the basketball itself featured the stern mug of one Barack Obama, as tweeted by ABC News\u2019 Jake Tapper. As Keith Koffler points out at White House Dossier, \u201cApparently, the basketball lesson doesn\u2019t include instruction in humility.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2012\/04\/09\/Easter-Egg-Basketball-Obama\">Breitbart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously?? So much did we the tax payer shell out?\u00a0 Not just for the custom printed basketballs, but also for the NBA Players&#8217; appearances?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jaketapper\/status\/189442792475459588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Jake Tapper reports on Twitter <\/a>that the Obama-Balls were NOT bought using Taxpayer money:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Should point out: the basketballs with image of POTUS on them were brought by NBA\/WNBA players at the WH Easter Egg Roll<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper\/status\/189441079165202432\">April 9, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At yesterday\u2019s Easter Egg Roll at the White House, President Obama\u2019s staff had a very special treat for the kids: a basketball clinic featuring NBA players. And there was a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,11,32],"tags":[90,127,133,157,192,359,366,399,412,462],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-shenanigans","category-is-that-racist","category-broke","tag-basketball","tag-change","tag-childish","tag-crazy","tag-economy","tag-not-surprising-2","tag-obama","tag-president-present","tag-racist","tag-stupid-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}