{"id":175689,"date":"2020-12-23T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/23\/i-was-an-optimist\/"},"modified":"2020-12-23T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T03:39:00","slug":"i-was-an-optimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/23\/i-was-an-optimist\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was an Optimist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I said that, &#8220;I expect to see double digit numbers of pardons on a weekly pardons moving forward,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/4-blackwater-mercenaries-3-corrupt.html\">last night<\/a>, I thought I was describing a worst case.<\/p>\n<p>I was wrong.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/23\/politics\/trump-pardons-stone-manafort-kushner\/index.html\">Trump just issued 26 new pardons today<\/a>, many for his co-conspirators.<\/p>\n<p>He may break 3 digits for a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I said that, &#8220;I expect to see double digit numbers of pardons on a weekly pardons moving forward,&#8221; last night, I thought I was describing a worst case. I was wrong.&nbsp; Trump just issued 26 new pardons today, many for his co-conspirators. He may break 3 digits for a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[443,368,573,454],"class_list":["post-175689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corrections","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}