{"id":1148,"date":"2014-11-22T06:56:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T11:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2014-11-22T06:56:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T11:56:48","slug":"nojomo-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2014\/11\/22\/nojomo-22\/","title":{"rendered":"NoJoMo 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 22nd is a big day for a graying segment of the population; calculate your age for that particularly bad day in Dallas, and describe the most important President of your lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>I was -16 when Kennedy was assassinated.  So, biologically, half of me existed.  The other half wouldn&#8217;t be produced until years later.  The current President was only a year old.  This has little significance for probably the majority of Americans today.  It&#8217;ll be less and less relevant as time goes on.<\/p>\n<p>As for the most important President of my lifetime, I keep going back to George HW Bush.  More and more I realize how little the Boomer Presidents have actually done for the country.  The political unpopularity of some of the smart fiscal things he did, along with the &#8220;little Admiral,&#8221; cost him re-election in 1992, unfortunately.  I actually work with people now who were born after he was President.<\/p>\n<p>The more I see, the more disgusted I get, lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 22nd is a big day for a graying segment of the population; calculate your age for that particularly bad day in Dallas, and describe the most important President of your lifetime. I was -16 when Kennedy was assassinated. So, biologically, half of me existed. The other half wouldn&#8217;t be produced until years later. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[27,36],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month","category-uncategorized","tag-nojomo-2014","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}