{"id":192871,"date":"2009-02-11T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/11\/classier-than-george-w-bush\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T02:56:00","slug":"classier-than-george-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/11\/classier-than-george-w-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Classier Than George W. Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unattributable.com\/2009\/02\/chinese-premier-shames-george-w-bush\/\">Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao<\/a>, who after having a shoe thrown at him by Martin Jahnke, has, &#8220;requested British authorities dismiss charges against Jahnke and pardon him for his act of protest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Chinese have the moral high ground over George W. Bush, who appears to think that the arrest, continued detention, torture, and threat of a long prison sentence against his shoe thrower, Muntazer al-Zaidi does not merit comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who after having a shoe thrown at him by Martin Jahnke, has, &#8220;requested British authorities dismiss charges against Jahnke and pardon him for his act of protest.&#8221; Yes, the Chinese have the moral high ground over George W. Bush, who appears to think that the arrest, continued detention, torture, and threat &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,969,1182,1051,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-evil","category-george-w-bush","category-hypocrisy","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192871"}],"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=192871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}