{"id":924,"date":"2003-11-29T11:36:01","date_gmt":"2003-11-29T18:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/born-to-rule\/"},"modified":"2003-11-29T11:36:01","modified_gmt":"2003-11-29T18:36:01","slug":"born-to-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/born-to-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Born to rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Op-Ed Columnist: The Promised Land\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/29\/opinion\/29BROO.html?th\">Op-Ed Columnist: The Promised Land<\/a> by David Brooks, NYTimes<\/p>\n<p><b>Republicans <\/b>now speak in that calm, and to their opponents infuriating, manner of those who <b>believe they were born to rule<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats, meanwhile, behave just as the Republicans did when they were stuck in the minority. They complain about their outrageous mistreatment by the majority. They are right to complain. The treatment is outrageous. But the <b>complaints only communicate weakness.<\/b> Democrats indulge in the joys of opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op-Ed Columnist: The Promised Land by David Brooks, NYTimes Republicans now speak in that calm, and to their opponents infuriating, manner of those who believe they were born to rule. The Democrats, meanwhile, behave just as the Republicans did when they were stuck in the minority. They complain about their outrageous mistreatment by the majority. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/born-to-rule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Born to rule<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","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=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}