{"id":653,"date":"2009-06-03T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=653"},"modified":"2009-06-03T08:24:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T15:24:13","slug":"life-imitates-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/06\/03\/life-imitates-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"life imitates parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the underrated <a href=\"http:\/\/noypi711.multiply.com\/journal\/item\/67\/The_You_Dont_Mess_with_the_Zohan_Glossary\">You Don&#8217;t Mess with the Zohan<\/a>, John Turturro&#8217;s character retires from battling the Israelis to open  a chain of shawarma restaurants called Muchentuchen. Yesterday, Hugo Chavez <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/06\/02\/welcome_to_hugo_chavez_restaurant_lebanon\">opened a shawarma restaurant<\/a> in Beirut, Lebanon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The restaurant, it seems, is quite patriotic indeed &#8212; decorated with flags and pictures of the Venezuelan president and, nearby as the press release from the Embassy put it (my translation), &#8220;instructions of our head of state relating to the fight for the sovereignty of the oppressed people of the world against the pretensions of potential imperialists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What atmosphere! Add the waiters&#8217; red shirts and hats, clothes traditional to Venezuela, and you&#8217;ve go the whole deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the underrated You Don&#8217;t Mess with the Zohan, John Turturro&#8217;s character retires from battling the Israelis to open a chain of shawarma restaurants called Muchentuchen. Yesterday, Hugo Chavez opened a shawarma restaurant in Beirut, Lebanon: The restaurant, it seems, is quite patriotic indeed &#8212; decorated with flags and pictures of the Venezuelan president and,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}