{"id":9323,"date":"2018-12-01T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9323"},"modified":"2018-12-01T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T17:22:47","slug":"the-last-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9323","title":{"rendered":"The last Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The airwaves are rightly cluttered with memories of George H.W. Bush, the 41<sup>st<\/sup>-President who died yesterday at age 94.  There are kind remarks, and recollections of campaign squalor &#8212; and universal acknowledgment of his private integrity and kindness.  I&#8217;ve nothing to add to any of that, so I&#8217;ll just point to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/09\/25\/george-h-w-bush-same-sex-wedding-witness-maine\/2874227\/\" target=\"_blank\">2913 news story<\/a> of his last, or near last, public appearance.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> Former President George H.W. Bush was an official witness at the same-sex wedding of two longtime friends, his spokesman said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush, attended the ceremony joining Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen as private citizens and friends on Saturday, spokesman Jim McGrath said.<\/p>\n<p>Thorgalsen posted a photo on her Facebook page showing Bush signing the marriage license as a witness. She captioned the photo: &#8220;Getting our marriage license witnessed!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That outraged the nutjobs, but I&#8217;ll remember Bush as a decent man who at last repudiated the Evangelical Right that he sucked-up to as a politician and finally understood that same-sex marriage ought to be a <i>conservative<\/i> cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airwaves are rightly cluttered with memories of George H.W. Bush, the 41st-President who died yesterday at age 94. There are kind remarks, and recollections of campaign squalor &#8212; and universal acknowledgment of his private integrity and kindness. I&#8217;ve nothing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9323\">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\/9323"}],"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=9323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9325,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}