{"id":2897,"date":"2009-02-01T14:10:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T19:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2009-02-01T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T19:25:20","slug":"says-frank-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/01\/says-frank-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/01\/opinion\/01rich.html\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Rich&#8230;<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\"><font color=\"#300030\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"124\" width=\"124\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/rich.jpg\" \/>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s up to me to hijack the Obama honeymoon,&rdquo; Limbaugh soon gloated, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;ve done it.&rdquo; In his dreams. He has hijacked what&rsquo;s left of the Republican Party; the Obama honeymoon remains intact. The nightmare is that we have so irrelevant, clownish and childish an opposition party at a moment when America is in an all-hands-on-deck emergency that&rsquo;s as trying as war. To paraphrase a dictum that has been variously attributed to two of our most storied leaders in times of great challenge, Thomas Paine and George Patton, the Republicans should either lead, follow or get out of the grown-ups&rsquo; way.<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"right\"><font color=\"#200020\"><strong>Amen&#8230; <\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s up to me to hijack the Obama honeymoon,&rdquo; Limbaugh soon gloated, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;ve done it.&rdquo; In his dreams. He has hijacked what&rsquo;s left of the Republican Party; the Obama honeymoon remains intact. The nightmare is that we have so irrelevant, clownish and childish an opposition party at a moment when America is in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}