{"id":3454,"date":"2013-09-06T23:11:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T23:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2013-09-06T23:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T23:11:40","slug":"is-a-rodman-defection-on-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3454","title":{"rendered":"Is a Rodman defection on tap?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am acutely aware that this is not an original thought, but I cannot prevent myself from weighing in.<\/p>\n<p>Is Dennis Rodman ready to defect to North Korea?<\/p>\n<p>He made a second trip there supposedly to seek the release of an American being held captive. He went there a few months ago and declared for all the world &#8212; or at least that part of the world where people actually care what he thinks &#8212; that North Korean dictator\/weirdo Kim Jong Un had become his &#8220;friend.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Well, with Rodman, one never knows what the term &#8220;friend&#8221; actually means. The pro basketball Hall of Famer flipped many years ago &#8212; about the time his coach at Detroit, Chuck Daly, retired from the game. Rodman couldn&#8217;t continue acting like a semi-normal human being without his mentor and friend to hold his hand.<\/p>\n<p>So he died his hair many colors, got all tatted up with body ink and now has pierced just about every visible appendage on his body &#8212; and maybe even some he keeps hidden in front of decent company.<\/p>\n<p>Rodman&#8217;s friendship with Kim Jong Un is a match made somewhere, but certainly not in heaven. <\/p>\n<p>The dictator presides over a nation that still starves its people while building one of the strongest military machines in Asia. But he&#8217;s Rodman&#8217;s pal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting &#8212; and hoping &#8212; for a defection. These two weirdoes deserve each other.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am acutely aware that this is not an original thought, but I cannot prevent myself from weighing in. Is Dennis Rodman ready to defect to North Korea? He made a second trip there supposedly to seek the release of an American being held captive. He went there a few months ago and declared for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3454\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is a Rodman defection on tap?<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1347,2681,3335,4324],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dennis-rodman","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}