{"id":4955,"date":"2016-07-19T09:33:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T01:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/19\/the-tampon-joke-you-may-have-missed-at-the-rnc\/"},"modified":"2016-07-19T09:33:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T01:33:40","slug":"the-tampon-joke-you-may-have-missed-at-the-rnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/19\/the-tampon-joke-you-may-have-missed-at-the-rnc\/","title":{"rendered":"The tampon joke you may have missed at the RNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You don’t expect to hear about feminine hygiene products when speakers discuss Benghazi during the Republican National Convention<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But that’s just what happened during the 20-minute speech given by U.S. Marine Corps veterans Mark Geist and John Tiegen, in which they gave a highly detailed, step-by-step account of their experience during the 2012 terrorist attack on the American embassy in Benghazi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Tiegen described a fellow combatant putting gauze in his ear, the member of the Benghazi Annex Security Team couldn’t help but make the comparison to a tampon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It’s been a whirlwind first day at the RNC. Between the chaos on the floor<\/ins><\/a> from the #NeverTrump movement, the oddly-labeled elevators<\/a> and polar bears<\/a>, it certainly keeps surprising. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More about Benghazi<\/a>, Tampon<\/a>, Rnc<\/a>, Republican National Convention<\/a>, and Watercooler<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You don’t expect to hear about feminine hygiene products when speakers discuss Benghazi during the Republican National Convention.\u00a0 But that’s just what happened during the 20-minute speech given by U.S. Marine Corps veterans Mark Geist and John Tiegen, in which … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3818,3410,3820,3819,735],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-benghazi","tag-republican-national-convention","tag-rnc","tag-tampon","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}