{"id":195414,"date":"2008-07-10T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/10\/what-driftglass-said\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T22:34:00","slug":"what-driftglass-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/10\/what-driftglass-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What Driftglass Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/driftglass.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/in-democracy.html\">In a Democracy<\/a>, the cure for a dimwit, sociopath king is not a hip, smart king who pledges to snake our overflowing toilets after he assumes the throne.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:180%;\">In a Democracy, we cannot allow there to be a throne in the first place.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama deserves condemnation for his FISA capitulation for this reason.<\/p>\n<p>Go read the whole article, along with his masterful use of photoshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Democracy, the cure for a dimwit, sociopath king is not a hip, smart king who pledges to snake our overflowing toilets after he assumes the throne. In a Democracy, we cannot allow there to be a throne in the first place. Obama deserves condemnation for his FISA capitulation for this reason. Go read &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1002,1003,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-good-writing","category-philosophy","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195414"}],"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=195414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}