{"id":7485,"date":"2020-05-27T18:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T01:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2020-06-01T02:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T09:43:30","slug":"50-billion-is-in-da-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7485","title":{"rendered":"Yo! 50 BILLion Is In Da House!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> And now for something completely different\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re kind of fatigued with the current state of affairs in the world: coronavirus, authoritarian leaders, racism, fanatical religions, corporatism,  environmental destruction, etc . . . . So, we&#8217;ve decided to dig into our vast archives of photo-toons for some chuckles from the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a little photo-toon from our June 19, 2006 issue.<\/strong> It features billionaire Bill Gates as he steps down as CEO of Microsoft to pursue his true passion: rap music, where he&#8217;ll perform under the moniker 50 BILLion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gatesrapper.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Gates has recently stepped down as CEO of Microsoft to pursue his true passion: rap music, where he'll perform under the moniker 50 BILLion.\" class=\"wp-image-7487\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gatesrapper.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gatesrapper-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Bill Gates has recently stepped down as CEO of  Microsoft to pursue his true passion: rap music, where he&#8217;ll perform under the moniker 50 BILLion.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now for something completely different\u2026 We&#8217;re kind of fatigued with the current state of affairs in the world: coronavirus, authoritarian leaders, racism, fanatical religions, corporatism, environmental destruction, etc . . . . So, we&#8217;ve decided to dig into our vast archives of photo-toons for some chuckles from the past. Here&#8217;s a little photo-toon from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yo! 50 BILLion Is In Da House!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- 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],"tags":[2166,2160,2163,885,2164,2161,2165,98,276,2162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485"}],"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=7485"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7502,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions\/7502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}