{"id":4114,"date":"2017-02-12T11:37:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2017-02-12T11:37:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T19:37:26","slug":"post-tortoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/02\/12\/post-tortoise\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Post Tortoise&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PostTortoise.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4115\" src=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PostTortoise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PostTortoise.jpg 640w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PostTortoise-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PostTortoise-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While stitching a cut on the hand of a 75-year-old farmer, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Donald Trump and his role as President elect of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The old farmer said, &#8221; Well, as I see it, Donald Trump is like a &#8216;Post Tortoise&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a &#8216;Post Tortoise&#8217; was.<\/p>\n<p>The old farmer said, &#8220;When you&#8217;re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a tortoise balanced on top, that&#8217;s a Post Tortoise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The old farmer saw the puzzled look on the doctor&#8217;s face so he continued to explain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know he didn&#8217;t get up there by himself, he doesn&#8217;t belong up there, he doesn&#8217;t know what to do while he&#8217;s up there, he&#8217;s elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb asses put him up there to begin with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Courtesy of Dr. Sharon Forrest and William P. Chiles)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While stitching a cut on the hand of a 75-year-old farmer, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Donald Trump and his role as President elect of the United States. The old farmer said, &#8221; Well, as I see it, Donald&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/02\/12\/post-tortoise\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4116,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}