{"id":16988,"date":"2017-12-27T18:32:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16988"},"modified":"2017-12-27T18:32:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:32:32","slug":"who-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/12\/27\/who-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"who rules?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/2017\/12\/25\/On-This-Day-Pope-Benedict-XVI-reveals-new-style-nativity\/1641513994294\/\">On this day in history,<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/media-galleries\/2017\/12\/today-in-history-dec-25\/slide\/1\/\">December 25, 1991<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a communist superpower that had already gone out of existence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 It was such the case where his job had become irrelevant, and then he quit.\u00c2\u00a0 But I&#8217;m stuck on the number : he was number 8.<\/p>\n<p>Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 Go down the list.<\/p>\n<p>#1:\u00c2\u00a0 Vladimir Lenin.<br \/>\n#2: Josef Stalin<br \/>\n#3:\u00c2\u00a0 Nikita Khruschev<br \/>\n#4: Leonid Brezhnev<br \/>\n#5: Um?<br \/>\n#6: Er?<br \/>\n#7: Uh?<br \/>\n#8: Mikhail Gorbachev<\/p>\n<p>Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 The temporal and instantly unsure nature of # 5 through #8 tells you the nature of the Soviet Union, to those with eyes to see.\u00c2\u00a0 Leadership style most associated with that of President William Henry Harrison.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe they were reformers.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe they were stalwarts.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe they lead from behind, maybe they made their presence known.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe they were big picture, maybe they were detail oriented.\u00c2\u00a0 But mostly they were just dead pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Andro something and a P some dude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted an On this day in history, For\u00c2\u00a0December 25, 1991. In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a communist superpower that had already gone out of existence. Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 It was such the case where his job had become irrelevant, and then [&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-16988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988","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=16988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16989,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions\/16989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}