{"id":180,"date":"2006-12-12T10:28:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T15:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/12\/12\/just-when-you-think-they-cant-sink-any-lower\/"},"modified":"2006-12-12T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T15:28:04","slug":"just-when-you-think-they-cant-sink-any-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/12\/12\/just-when-you-think-they-cant-sink-any-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Just when you think they can&#8217;t sink any lower . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why this surprises me, but the Washington Post Op-Ed page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/11\/AR2006121101166.html\">just said<\/a>, essentially, &#8220;Hey, Pinochet murdered thousands, but he left behind a really great economy! So Jeane Kirkpatrick was right &#8211; we SHOULD support murderous dictators, so long at they&#8217;re rightwing!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why this surprises me, but the Washington Post Op-Ed page just said, essentially, &#8220;Hey, Pinochet murdered thousands, but he left behind a really great economy! So Jeane Kirkpatrick was right &#8211; we SHOULD support murderous dictators, so long at they&#8217;re rightwing!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}