{"id":8809,"date":"2011-10-02T13:32:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T20:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8809"},"modified":"2011-10-02T13:31:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T20:31:46","slug":"so-much-for-that-whole-democracy-thing-president-carter-but-happy-birthday-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=8809","title":{"rendered":"So Much for That Whole &#8216;Democracy&#8217; Thing, President Carter &#8211; But Happy Birthday Anyway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/JimmyCarter_lean.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.&#8221; <i>&#8211; President Jimmy Carter<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/124\/pres60.html\">Inaugural Address, 1\/20\/1977<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, well. It was a nice idea at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, happy 87th birthday (yesterday), Mr. President!<\/p>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/WestWingReport\/status\/120130093950574592\"><i>Hat-tip @WestWingReport.<\/i><\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.&#8221; &#8211; President Jimmy Carter (Inaugural Address, 1\/20\/1977) Oh, well. It was a nice idea at the time. Nonetheless, happy 87th birthday (yesterday), Mr. President! [Hat-tip @WestWingReport.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405,400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush-legacy","category-election-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}