{"id":3017,"date":"2015-01-17T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T18:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2015-01-17T20:21:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T18:21:20","slug":"because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=3017","title":{"rendered":"Because"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi Ambassador to the UN has just finished giving a speech, and walks out into the lobby where he meets President Bush.  They shake hands and as they walk the Saudi says, &#8220;You know, I have just one question about what I have seen in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Bush says &#8220;Well your Excellency, anything I can do to help you, I will do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi whispers &#8220;My son watches this show &#8216;Star Trek&#8217; and in it there are Russians, and Blacks, and Asians, but never any Arabs. He is very upset. He doesn&#8217;t understand why there are never any Arabs in Star Trek.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Bush laughs and leans toward the Saudi, and whispers back, &#8220;It&#8217;s because it takes place in the future&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi Ambassador to the UN has just finished giving a speech, and walks out into the lobby where he meets President Bush. They shake hands and as they walk the Saudi says, &#8220;You know, I have just one question about what I have seen in America.&#8221; President Bush says &#8220;Well your Excellency, anything I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[710,1359],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-w-bush","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}