{"id":1472,"date":"2001-12-31T16:12:28","date_gmt":"2001-12-31T21:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2001-12-31T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2001-12-31T21:12:28","slug":"a_bad_sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/31\/a_bad_sign.html","title":{"rendered":"A bad sign"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a bad sign<\/a> when the old president gets ousted, and then, when the new regime gets into power, they discover things are so bad that they start resigning as fast as power can be passed on to the next constitutional successor.<\/p>\n

Yup. Bad sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a bad sign when the old president gets ousted, and then, when the new regime gets into power, they discover things are so bad that they start resigning as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41671,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/10\/and-so-the-aca-takes-center-stage.html","url_meta":{"origin":1472,"position":0},"title":"And so the ACA takes center stage","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Apr-14 5:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I can hardly blame Sebelius for resigning, as she's been the focus of a shitstorm of pressure and hostility ever since she's taken on the HHS Secretary role. 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