{"id":1564,"date":"2012-05-11T00:34:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T07:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2012-05-11T00:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T07:35:00","slug":"saddams-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1564","title":{"rendered":"Saddam&#8217;s Lawyer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our zany zealot retrospective continues with more Saddam Hussein&#8230; This photo-toon is from our July 18th, 2004 issue and features Saddam&#8217;s surprise choice of lawyer for his criminal trial in Iraq. We think he may have watched too much American TV.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1565\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=1565\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1565\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1565\" title=\"saddamtrial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/saddamtrial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/saddamtrial.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/saddamtrial-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saddam Hussein surprised the world when he introduced Ben Matlock to be his defense attorney for his upcoming trial.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our zany zealot retrospective continues with more Saddam Hussein&#8230; This photo-toon is from our July 18th, 2004 issue and features Saddam&#8217;s surprise choice of lawyer for his criminal trial in Iraq. We think he may have watched too much American TV. &nbsp;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,500],"tags":[507,115,514,515,98,261,516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}