{"id":3934,"date":"2003-03-08T12:53:26","date_gmt":"2003-03-08T17:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2003-03-08T12:53:26","modified_gmt":"2003-03-08T17:53:26","slug":"fading_places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/08\/fading_places.html","title":{"rendered":"Fading places"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poor Fidel Castro. Sure, he was elected to a sixth term as president of Cuba, but with only 97%<\/a> — far behind the 100% enjoyed by Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n

I suppose it’s only a matter of time, with numbers like that, the press starts to question the legitmacy of his reign …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poor Fidel Castro. Sure, he was elected to a sixth term as president of Cuba, but with only 97% — far behind the 100% enjoyed by Saddam Hussein. 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