{"id":159,"date":"2006-06-11T11:37:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T18:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2008-09-25T11:39:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T18:39:42","slug":"rogues-gallery-1-honest-sam-dinsmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Rogues&#8217; Gallery #1: &#8220;HONEST&#8221; SAM DINSMORE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to start a new feature (or possibly features) to fill in gaps where I don&#8217;t have time to do a Soapy strip&#8230; the working name for the first new feature is &#8220;Rogue&#8217;s Gallery,&#8221; but I may end up changing it. This should make it so there are less days here where nothing gets posted, of which there have been too many lately. Anyhow, here&#8217;s the first one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/rogues\/rogue0001.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;HONEST&#8221; SAM DINSMORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although known as &#8220;Honest&#8221; Sam, Sam cheats at cards, steals candy from the grocery (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brachs.com\/products\/product.asp?base_code=229\">jelly nougats<\/a>) and would claim to like the Beatles when asked even though he finds them boring and overrated, and once smashed his car stereo with a ball-peen hammer in a tequila rage as a reaction to the 26th verse of <em>Hey Jude<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Those days of angry inebriation are behind him now, though&#8230; he&#8217;s learned to meditate. When he feels his blood begin to rise, he now pictures Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s calming visage floating benignly four inches in front of his face. He tried other presidents first&#8230; Washington, Jackson, Fillmore&#8230; Lincoln seemed too easy&#8230; but Lincoln&#8217;s mug just harmonizes alpha waves like nobody&#8217;s business. <\/p>\n<p>He made the mistake of telling one of his co-workers at the bank about it&#8230; thus the inaccurate nom de plume. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s fine with it though&#8230; it can&#8217;t hurt, considering the embezzlement and all. Only one month to go and he&#8217;s off to South America for a new life&#8230; he imagines that Abraham will be an infrequent visitor as he relaxes on white sand beaches with an alcohol-free pina colada. In the meantime, he&#8217;s visualizing Abe levitating in front of his monitor for a minimum of three hours a day, patiently ignoring the spreadsheets, databases and powerpoint presentations that one must endure when pulling a bank job in the early 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to start a new feature (or possibly features) to fill in gaps where I don&#8217;t have time to do a Soapy strip&#8230; the working name for the first new feature is &#8220;Rogue&#8217;s Gallery,&#8221; but I may end up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/?p=159\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rogues-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}