{"id":5489,"date":"2012-01-24T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T14:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2012-01-24T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T14:56:58","slug":"kiss-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5489","title":{"rendered":"Kiss him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someday the Dish will decline and I will no longer feel compelled to check it out on a near daily basis. It will joke around one too many times about &#8220;bears&#8221; or the Internet definition of some unfortunate, self righteous, ex Senator&#8217;s name and I will turn elsewhere. But with gems like <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/01\/the-presidential-politics-of-baby-kissing.html\">this<\/a> today that gave me a hearty belly laugh I&#8217;ll keep turning in to keep my brain fresh and informed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The woman handed the dirty-faced infant to Old Hickory. Jackson took it and held it up before him. &#8220;Ah! There is a fine specimen of American childhood. I think, madam, your boy will make a fine man some day.&#8221; Then, with a quick gesture, he put the dirty face of the infant close to the face of Secretary [of War] Eaton, saying quickly and soberly, &#8220;Eaton, kiss him?&#8221; General Eaton pretended to do so with a wry face, amid the laughter of the crowd, and Jackson then handed the baby back to the happy mother.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someday the Dish will decline and I will no longer feel compelled to check it out on a near daily basis. It will joke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}