{"id":14436,"date":"2014-12-09T20:30:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14436"},"modified":"2014-12-09T20:31:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T03:31:44","slug":"laughing-ha-ha-ha-hee-hee-hee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/12\/09\/laughing-ha-ha-ha-hee-hee-hee\/","title":{"rendered":"laughing, ha ha ha, hee hee hee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking about, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/eamonnfingleton\/2014\/09\/04\/three-reasons-why-putin-laughs-at-impotent-u-s\/\">I see this headline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Three Reasons Why Putin Laughs At Impotent\u00c2\u00a0America<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sure, Despot he be, a KGB throwback who&#8217;s consolidated power wantonly and gleefully.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet&#8230; Powerless are we to do anything about Putin&#8217;s invasion into the Ukraine.\u00c2\u00a0 In part because&#8230; hm&#8230; hard to get Americans worked up.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re over here, they&#8217;re over there.<\/p>\n<p>I was always fascinated by this line by America&#8217;s Castro lovers \/ sympathizers.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;He outlasted nine US Presidents&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure did.\u00c2\u00a0 What a weak bunch, these American Presidents.\u00c2\u00a0 Willing to step down after a term&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking about, I see this headline. Three Reasons Why Putin Laughs At Impotent\u00c2\u00a0America Sure, Despot he be, a KGB throwback who&#8217;s consolidated power wantonly and gleefully.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet&#8230; Powerless are we to do anything about Putin&#8217;s invasion into the Ukraine.\u00c2\u00a0 In part because&#8230; hm&#8230; hard to get Americans worked up.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re over here, they&#8217;re over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14438,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436\/revisions\/14438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}