{"id":24554,"date":"2023-06-26T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=24554"},"modified":"2023-06-26T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:06:08","slug":"life-imitates-the-babylon-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/26\/life-imitates-the-babylon-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Imitates the Babylon Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My state has one upped this gag.\u00a0 We have bridges that have been declared dangerous for decades but the state mechanism for repairing them is completely impenetrable.\u00a0 Eventually the state will have to be permanently divided along the lines of all the small streams that traverse it.\u00a0 Soon regional dialects will develop and eventually mutually unintelligible languages but the bridges will just become place names that adorn maps as we stare across these small bodies of water that will forever divide us.\u00a0 Damn you Mayor Pete.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">State Achieves Goal Of Having Every Road Under Construction At The Same Time <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/horXBcV3vS\">https:\/\/t.co\/horXBcV3vS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9S80XUe5IF\">pic.twitter.com\/9S80XUe5IF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBabylonBee\/status\/1673377476830019589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My state has one upped this gag.\u00a0 We have bridges that have been declared dangerous for decades but the state mechanism for repairing them is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,288],"tags":[3009,168],"class_list":["post-24554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-humor","tag-babylon-bee","tag-humor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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