{"id":184407,"date":"2012-05-09T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/09\/i-am-disappointed-in-myself\/"},"modified":"2012-05-09T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T01:04:00","slug":"i-am-disappointed-in-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/09\/i-am-disappointed-in-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"I am Disappointed in Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You see, I&#8217;ve been watching the kerfuffle over Obama and gay marriage since Biden&#8217;s statement on Sunday, and what appeared to be a full on weasel by Obama, or at least his Press Secretary Jay Carney, from which I inferred that the President would give the weasel answer.<\/p>\n<p>I had been drafting my scathing response to this in my head for days, so when he actually made a clear and unambiguous statement I was surprised.<\/p>\n<p>But my first reaction wasn&#8217;t surprise.&nbsp; My first thought was, &#8220;Son of a bitch!&nbsp; I have to rewrite now!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least I had the basic level of self awareness to be ashamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see, I&#8217;ve been watching the kerfuffle over Obama and gay marriage since Biden&#8217;s statement on Sunday, and what appeared to be a full on weasel by Obama, or at least his Press Secretary Jay Carney, from which I inferred that the President would give the weasel answer. I had been drafting my scathing response &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,971,1030,1118,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-civil-rights","category-lgbtq","category-meta","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184407"}],"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=184407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}