{"id":50,"date":"2017-01-14T14:46:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T17:00:07","slug":"putin-admits-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Putin admits to hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing a cough due to cold, Russian premiere Vladimir Putin admitted it was he who was hacking during a recent media conference call, continually clearing his throat and horching while reporters on the call threw up a little in their mouths listening to the live phlegm streaming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t help it,&#8221; said Putin, who apologized for not admitting to the hacking earlier. &#8220;You know how cold it is in this country? And I can&#8217;t wear a hat when I go out because they say it looks weak. Thanks Kennedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Putin was apparently forced to come clean about his hacking after the photo above showed the telltale Kleenex he used.<\/p>\n<p>Russia initially denied Putin was responsible for any of the hacking clearly heard by Western reporters, blaming the coughing on the Chinese. &#8220;Obviously one of them had just had some egg drop soup. You know how slimy that stuff is.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=washingtonweak\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing a cough due to cold, Russian premiere Vladimir Putin admitted it was he who was hacking [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,24,26],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}