{"id":968,"date":"2007-01-02T01:13:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T06:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2007-02-23T13:48:25","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T18:48:25","slug":"on-the-passing-of-gerald-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"On the Passing of Gerald Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Ford is one of the\u00c2\u00a0four Presidents I&#8217;ve seen albeit before he became President. He spoke to the summer interns in 1971 when I was in Washington\u00c2\u00a0and welcomed us to D.C.<\/p>\n<p>I was very partial to Ford and when Ronald Reagan attempted to wrest the GOP nomination from him in 1976 I was a strong Ford partisan. I always blamed Bob Dole for his defeat\u00c2\u00a0even though\u00c2\u00a0most people blamed\u00c2\u00a0his loss\u00c2\u00a0on the Nixon pardon. I thought the pardon was\u00c2\u00a0the right\u00c2\u00a0thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2156400\/\">this bruising critique<\/a> of Ford by\u00c2\u00a0Christopher Hitchens which is worth a read. Whenever everyone starts\u00c2\u00a0starts acting like a herd (and\u00c2\u00a0almost everyone has been saying nice things about Ford)\u00c2\u00a0its worth paying attention to the dissenters. Hitchens hasn&#8217;t changed my mind though. I&#8217;m still a Ford fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Ford is one of the\u00c2\u00a0four Presidents I&#8217;ve seen albeit before he became President. He spoke to the summer interns in 1971 when I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}