{"id":5239,"date":"2009-12-28T19:59:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T02:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2009-12-28T19:59:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T02:59:28","slug":"wherein-i-rank-the-presidents-into-four-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/12\/28\/wherein-i-rank-the-presidents-into-four-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein I rank the Presidents into four categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>minus Garfield, William Henry Harrison, and the current occupant of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Tier 1 &#8212; The quote-in-quote &#8220;Greats&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_0\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">George Washington<\/span><br \/>\n2.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_1\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Thomas Jefferson<\/span><br \/>\n3.\u00c2\u00a0 John Quincy Adams<br \/>\n4.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_3\">Abraham Lincoln<\/span><br \/>\n5.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_4\">Chester Arthur<\/span><br \/>\n6.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_5\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Woodrow Wilson<\/span><br \/>\n7.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_6\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Franklin Roosevelt<\/span><br \/>\n8.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_7\">Harry Truman<\/span><br \/>\n9.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_8\">John Kennedy<\/span><br \/>\n10. <span id=\"lw_1262055563_9\">Gerald Ford<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tier 2.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Good&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_10\">James Monroe<\/span><br \/>\n2.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_11\">Andrew Jackson<\/span><br \/>\n3.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_12\">John Tyler<\/span><br \/>\n4.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_13\">James Polk<\/span><br \/>\n5.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_14\">Zachary Taylor<\/span><br \/>\n6.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_15\">Grover Cleveland<\/span><br \/>\n7.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_16\">Theodore Roosevelt<\/span><br \/>\n8.\u00c2\u00a0 William Howard Taft<br \/>\n9.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_18\">Dwight Eisenhower<\/span><br \/>\n10. <span id=\"lw_1262055563_19\">Bill Clinton<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tier 3.\u00c2\u00a0 The &#8220;Middlers&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00c2\u00a0 John Adams<br \/>\n2.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_21\">James Madison<\/span><br \/>\n3.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_22\">Martin Van Buren<\/span><br \/>\n4.\u00c2\u00a0 Ulysses Grant<br \/>\n5.\u00c2\u00a0 William McKinley<br \/>\n6.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_24\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Warren Harding<\/span><br \/>\n7.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_25\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Herbert Hoover<\/span><br \/>\n8.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_26\">Lyndon Johnson<\/span><br \/>\n9.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_27\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Ronald Reagan<\/span><br \/>\n10. <span id=\"lw_1262055563_28\">George Bush<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tier 4.\u00c2\u00a0 The Bad<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_29\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Millard Fillmore<\/span><br \/>\n2.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_30\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Franklin Pierce<\/span><br \/>\n3.\u00c2\u00a0 James Buchanan<br \/>\n4.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_32\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Andrew Johnson<\/span><br \/>\n5.\u00c2\u00a0 Rutherford Hayes<br \/>\n6.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_33\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Benjamin Harrison<\/span><br \/>\n7.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_34\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Calvin Coolidge<\/span><br \/>\n8.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_35\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Richard Nixon<\/span><br \/>\n9.\u00c2\u00a0 <span id=\"lw_1262055563_36\">Jimmy Carter<\/span><br \/>\n10. <span id=\"lw_1262055563_37\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">George W Bush<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>minus Garfield, William Henry Harrison, and the current occupant of the White House. Tier 1 &#8212; The quote-in-quote &#8220;Greats&#8221; 1.\u00c2\u00a0 George Washington 2.\u00c2\u00a0 Thomas Jefferson 3.\u00c2\u00a0 John Quincy Adams 4.\u00c2\u00a0 Abraham Lincoln 5.\u00c2\u00a0 Chester Arthur 6.\u00c2\u00a0 Woodrow Wilson 7.\u00c2\u00a0 Franklin Roosevelt 8.\u00c2\u00a0 Harry Truman 9.\u00c2\u00a0 John Kennedy 10. Gerald Ford Tier 2.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Good&#8221;. 1.\u00c2\u00a0 James [&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-5239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239","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=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5240,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions\/5240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}