{"id":183892,"date":"2012-10-21T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/21\/i-think-that-my-dad-still-has-some-mcgovern-1972-stationary-somewhere-in-our-house\/"},"modified":"2012-10-21T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T02:17:00","slug":"i-think-that-my-dad-still-has-some-mcgovern-1972-stationary-somewhere-in-our-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/21\/i-think-that-my-dad-still-has-some-mcgovern-1972-stationary-somewhere-in-our-house\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think That My Dad Still Has Some McGovern 1972 Stationary Somewhere in Our House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/22\/us\/politics\/george-mcgovern-a-democratic-presidential-nominee-and-liberal-stalwart-dies-at-90.html\">He died today<\/a>, at age 90.&nbsp; (George McGovern died, <b>not<\/b> my dad)<\/p>\n<p>He was a better man on every level than Richard Nixon, and would have made a better President.<\/p>\n<p>As depressing as it sounds, I think that Nixon might very well have been a better President than all of those that proceeded him.<\/p>\n<p>He was certainly better than the overwhelming majority of them. <\/p>\n<p>That is a scary thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He died today, at age 90.&nbsp; (George McGovern died, not my dad) He was a better man on every level than Richard Nixon, and would have made a better President. As depressing as it sounds, I think that Nixon might very well have been a better President than all of those that proceeded him. He &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183892"}],"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=183892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}