{"id":1703,"date":"2006-03-15T16:34:54","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T23:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/even-perfect-storms-pass\/"},"modified":"2006-03-15T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T19:42:20","slug":"even-perfect-storms-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/even-perfect-storms-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Perfect Storms Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>If you&#8217;re like me, you may wince or roll your eyes at references to all Republicans as being a part of a &#8220;Culture of Corruption.&#8221; Most of the Republicans I know personally are fairly decent. Only one would like to see me arrested. <\/p>\n<p>However, there is NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER that the elections in 2000 and 2004 constituted a perfect storm for two powerful influences in our society: the sleaziest Capitalists and the most repressive Puritans &#8212; keep reading if you have any doubts. Even if we don&#8217;t slide into fascism, the worst corporations will cut our throats while the scolds burn our corpses.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember what Democratic corruption or incompetence looks like (yeah, yeah &#8212; &#8220;Santa Fe&#8221; &#8212; OK, fine), but I&#8217;d take it any day over what&#8217;s happening now. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you may wince or roll your eyes at references to all Republicans as being a part of a &#8220;Culture of Corruption.&#8221; Most of the Republicans I know personally are fairly decent. Only one would like to see me arrested. However, there is NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER that the elections in 2000 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/even-perfect-storms-pass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Even Perfect Storms Pass<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}