{"id":10590,"date":"2010-11-09T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10590"},"modified":"2010-11-09T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T23:52:07","slug":"michelle-obamas-unclean-handshake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/michelle-obamas-unclean-handshake\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama\u2019s unclean handshake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2010\/11\/the-michelle-obama-handshake-flap-in-indonesia\/1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring &#8212; a conservative Muslim who says he makes no contact with women who are unrelated to him &#8212; admits he shook Mrs. Obama&#8217;s hand today, but adds that he was basically forced into it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tried to prevent (being touched) with my hands but Mrs. Michelle held her hands too far toward me (so) we touched,&#8221; Sembiring said on his Twitter account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Was the problem that Michelle didn\u2019t wash after flushing or that the mere touch of her hand would send the minister into a frenzy of erotic lust? Not the latter, surely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring &#8212; a conservative Muslim who says he makes no contact with women who are unrelated to him &#8212; admits he shook Mrs. Obama&#8217;s hand today, but adds that he was basically forced into it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/michelle-obamas-unclean-handshake\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[2178,2203],"class_list":["post-10590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michelle-obama","tag-islam","tag-michelle-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}