{"id":2633,"date":"2007-10-16T22:50:35","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T05:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/16\/things-that-are-not-news\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T05:51:11","slug":"things-that-are-not-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/16\/things-that-are-not-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Things That Are Not News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lynne Cheney has discovered through her genealogical research that Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are &#8212; eighth cousins.<\/p>\n<p>Okay.  So, this is what sells a book basically pre-packaged for the remainder bins?  (Alongside Mary Cheney&#8217;s book and the Bush daughter&#8217;s book and&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I am descended from Scottish royalty in some round-about way.  I think we all are, if you get down to brass task.  But you will have to do better than &#8220;eighth cousin&#8221; to forge a lineage between Cheney and Obama.  Or for me to get back to my Scottish Royal roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynne Cheney has discovered through her genealogical research that Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are &#8212; eighth cousins. Okay. So, this is what sells a book basically pre-packaged for the remainder bins? (Alongside Mary Cheney&#8217;s book and the Bush daughter&#8217;s book and&#8230;) I am descended from Scottish royalty in some round-about way. I think we [&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-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","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=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}