{"id":5039,"date":"2022-09-10T16:56:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:59:04","slug":"xi-xi-ping-pong-2nd-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5039","title":{"rendered":"XI XI PING PONG (2nd letter)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Xi Xi Ping Pong,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just want to you have my word that our recent test of the ICBM means nothing for our relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, the military rules call for periodic tests that I have no control over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, the media is just a fiddle to be played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We both have obligations to react appropriately to keep our people content, if possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have better control over yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m working as fast as I can on mine, following your methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we do have a lot of the same goals, thanks to our times together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot we can work out with talks and deals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe we don&#8217;t have to blow up the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope things are going well for your leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Biden my time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P. S. &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; We need to get together for another game (secretly of course), before I get too old or you get too fat to be at the top of our game.  Who would have ever thought a little white ball could make so much difference in international relations between the world&#8217;s two superpowers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Xi Xi Ping Pong, Just want to you have my word that our recent test of the ICBM means nothing for our relationship. You know, the military rules call for periodic tests that I have no control over. So, nothing to worry about. You know, the media is just a fiddle to be played. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5041,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions\/5041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}