{"id":5283,"date":"2016-12-26T09:31:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T14:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5283"},"modified":"2016-12-26T09:31:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T14:31:34","slug":"farewell-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5283","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reince Priebus, Chief-of-Staff to President-elect The Donald, sends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/12\/25\/politics\/priebus-christmas-new-king\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas greetings<\/a> to the Little People.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Merry Christmas to all! Over two millennia ago, a new hope was born into the world, a Savior who would offer the promise of salvation to all mankind. Just as the three wise men did on that night, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">this Christmas heralds a time to celebrate the good news of a new King<\/span>. We hope Americans celebrating Christmas today will enjoy a day of festivities and a renewed closeness with family and friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well &#8212; who knows?  It clearly says what it says.  But if Priebus were a smart man he wouldn&#8217;t be supporting Trump in the first place or serving in his administration, so maybe it was just a clumsy locution (like that time Trump promised to pay the legal bills of supporters who beat-up protesters, or that time he promised to release his tax returns, but didn&#8217;t actually mean it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reince Priebus, Chief-of-Staff to President-elect The Donald, sends Christmas greetings to the Little People. Merry Christmas to all! Over two millennia ago, a new hope was born into the world, a Savior who would offer the promise of salvation to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5283\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5285,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions\/5285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}