{"id":26,"date":"2005-01-28T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T16:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=26"},"modified":"2005-01-28T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T17:06:02","slug":"if-only-she-meant-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"If Only She Meant It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be my birthday &#8211; actually, it is! &#8211; because Maureen Dowd has answered <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?p=17\" target=\"_blank\">my prayers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/27\/opinion\/27dowd.html?incamp=article_popular_5\" target=\"_blank\">announced the end<\/a> of her unhelpful, sophomoric columns.<\/p>\n<p>If only she weren&#8217;t being facetious.  The childishness (Alberto Gonzales is &#8220;Torture Boy&#8221;???), <i>ad hominem<\/i> attacks and throw-the-words-in-the-air-and-see-where-they-land writing will continue giving the Anti-Bush League a bad name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be my birthday &#8211; actually, it is! &#8211; because Maureen Dowd has answered my prayers and announced the end of her unhelpful, sophomoric columns. If only she weren&#8217;t being facetious. The childishness (Alberto Gonzales is &#8220;Torture Boy&#8221;???), ad hominem attacks and throw-the-words-in-the-air-and-see-where-they-land writing will continue giving the Anti-Bush League a bad name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-world-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}