{"id":184892,"date":"2011-12-20T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/12\/20\/happy-hanukkah-to-you-too-dad\/"},"modified":"2011-12-20T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:29:00","slug":"happy-hanukkah-to-you-too-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/12\/20\/happy-hanukkah-to-you-too-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Hanukkah to You Too, Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img38.imageshack.us\/img38\/1999\/nixonsm.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/>So, I got this from my Dad for Hanukkah.&nbsp; Yep, it&#8217;s a real Richard Nixon campaign button.<\/p>\n<p>Have I mentioned that my family is just a <b>wee<\/b> bit bent?<\/p>\n<p>Nixon is an interesting character:&nbsp; The worst president from 1933 through <strike>1973<\/strike> 1974, and the best president from 1969 through the present.<\/p>\n<p>If he were running these days, he&#8217;d be the smartest, most pragmatic, most ethical,<sup>*<\/sup> and most liberal<sup>\u2020<\/sup> person in the White House since his own inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>America is in decline, QED.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Really, <b>seriously<\/b>.&nbsp; Just on the issue of supporting civil rights, he&#8217;s light years ahead of the competition.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Really.  Opened the door to the People&#8217;s Republic of China, created OSHA and the EPA, etc.<\/span><sup>\u2021<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2021<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">We are living in Bizarro World, seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I got this from my Dad for Hanukkah.&nbsp; Yep, it&#8217;s a real Richard Nixon campaign button. Have I mentioned that my family is just a wee bit bent? Nixon is an interesting character:&nbsp; The worst president from 1933 through 1973 1974, and the best president from 1969 through the present. If he were running &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,1021,1015,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-weird","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184892"}],"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=184892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}