{"id":14832,"date":"2015-08-16T16:45:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T23:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14832"},"modified":"2015-08-16T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T23:45:20","slug":"an-enjoyable-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/08\/16\/an-enjoyable-read\/","title":{"rendered":"an enjoyable read."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14833\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/crookedaustingrossmancover.jpg\" alt=\"crookedaustingrossmancover\" width=\"162\" height=\"251\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Fascinating book.\u00c2\u00a0 HP Lovecraft writes Richard Nixon&#8217;s career&#8230; it&#8217;s like the author test-marketed the book&#8217;s premise just for me.<\/p>\n<p>Always a complicated question as to &#8220;Just what Nixon is\/was&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>I had, I realized, lost track of whether I was a centrist Republican stalwart, a right wing Communist demagagouge, a mole for Soviet intelligence, the proxy candidate for a Bavarian Sorcerer, or the Wes&#8217;ts last hope against an onrushing tide of insane chthonic forces.\u00c2\u00a0 No one seemed to notice that Tricky Dick was himself a trick<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8212; 227<\/p>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The year 1976 will be the final one of the American Republic,&#8221; he [Kissinger] whispered.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Cut free from the Twenty-Second Amendment, you will be an immortal mage-president.\u00c2\u00a0 Able to crush the rebel cult of the Supreme Court implanted by rogue initiate founders.\u00c2\u00a0 You will subjugate the massed power of the four legislative bodies &#8212; House, Senate, Gestalt, and Hovering.\u00c2\u00a0 You will sit on a white throne in a white house for all eternity, ruling the two hundred and forty eight states of the Final Union.\u00c2\u00a0 E pluribus Nixon, eternum.&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; 280<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Fascinating book.\u00c2\u00a0 HP Lovecraft writes Richard Nixon&#8217;s career&#8230; it&#8217;s like the author test-marketed the book&#8217;s premise just for me. Always a complicated question as to &#8220;Just what Nixon is\/was&#8221;&#8230; I had, I realized, lost track of whether I was a centrist Republican stalwart, a right wing Communist demagagouge, a mole for Soviet intelligence, the [&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-14832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832","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=14832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14834,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832\/revisions\/14834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}