{"id":8340,"date":"2013-11-23T07:13:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T07:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/23\/jfk-a-beautiful-mediocrity\/"},"modified":"2013-11-23T07:13:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T07:13:30","slug":"jfk-a-beautiful-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/23\/jfk-a-beautiful-mediocrity\/","title":{"rendered":"JFK: A Beautiful Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">T<span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">here is much that is right in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/364372\/beautiful-mediocrity-editors\" target=\"_self\">this piece<\/a> by the editors of NRO.&#0160; But I am sure glad that Kennedy was in&#0160; charge back in October, 1962 as opposed to Bill Clinton or, God forbid, the feckless Obama. The Irishman was a resolute commie-fighter who stood tall against Krushchev, the shoe-banging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/3591723\/The-bumpkin-butcher.html\" target=\"_self\">butcher of the Ukraine<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/nov\/22\/kennedy-assassination-50-years-jfk&amp;a=223376879&amp;rid=9af13e75-1901-42f1-85be-2c2bcbbcd18d&amp;e=58d0388fe2f7f4a2cabb34fab8458fee\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/223376879_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/nov\/22\/kennedy-assassination-50-years-jfk&amp;a=223376879&amp;rid=9af13e75-1901-42f1-85be-2c2bcbbcd18d&amp;e=58d0388fe2f7f4a2cabb34fab8458fee\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Kennedy assassination: memory and myth refuse to die after 50 years<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is much that is right in this piece by the editors of NRO.&#0160; But I am sure glad that Kennedy was in&#0160; charge back in October, 1962 as opposed to Bill Clinton or, God forbid, the feckless Obama. The Irishman was a resolute commie-fighter who stood tall against Krushchev, the shoe-banging butcher of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/23\/jfk-a-beautiful-mediocrity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JFK: A Beautiful Mediocrity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}