{"id":338,"date":"2004-06-11T20:05:44","date_gmt":"2004-06-12T03:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/the-secret-to-rehabilitation\/"},"modified":"2004-06-11T20:05:44","modified_gmt":"2004-06-12T03:05:44","slug":"the-secret-to-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/the-secret-to-rehabilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret to Rehabilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Bennett<\/b>, America’s scold, still sells books and speaks <\/p>\n

publicly after his gambling addiction was revealed. Lush, er, Rush Limbaugh<\/b> bounced back quite quickly from his addiction to <\/p>\n

prescription drugs — and his violation of federal law. Greg Payne<\/b> has returned from alcoholism (and ‘assault’ with a can). What <\/p>\n

makes these three models of redemption? Oh, yeah, they’re conservative. Is it too late for former Judge Brennan to join the <\/p>\n

Republican Party?<\/b><\/p>\n

The truth is, until conservatives took power, American’s believed crime was an aberration and one could pay <\/p>\n

one’s debt and resume a normal life. Now, we have a larger percentage of citizens in prison than the old Soviet Union or China. Now, we <\/p>\n

don’t punish, we torture. From Nixon to Reagan to Bush, we’ve grown meaner and more afraid, at home and abroad.<\/b> <\/p>\n

mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Bennett, America’s scold, still sells books and speaks publicly after his gambling addiction was revealed. Lush, er, Rush Limbaugh bounced back quite quickly from his addiction to prescription drugs — and his violation of federal law. Greg Payne has returned from alcoholism (and ‘assault’ with a can). What makes these three models of redemption? … Continue reading The Secret to Rehabilitation<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}