{"id":79760,"date":"2021-10-15T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79760"},"modified":"2021-10-15T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:36:13","slug":"just-so-were-clear-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79760","title":{"rendered":"Just So We&#8217;re Clear&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;I&#8217;m pretty sure the Secretary of Transportation is one of the Cabinet offices, like Education and Energy, that we could get rid of tomorrow and nobody would notice.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But with that said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Secretary Buttigieg stays on paternity leave amid supply chain crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JhKSXbFqJe\">https:\/\/t.co\/JhKSXbFqJe<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nypost<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BareShelvesBiden?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BareShelvesBiden<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lisa Sabin (@LisaSabin24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisaSabin24\/status\/1449004556780703746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If Trump were still president, and Elaine Chao were sitting on the sidelines during a national crisis squarely involving (for better or worse) her corner of the bureaucracy, I&#8217;m pretty sure we&#8217;d be hearing about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way &#8211; during the nomination process, it seemed Buttigieg&#8217;s main qualification was that he was kind of a train geek as a kid.  Too bad he wasn&#8217;t a ship geek, like me (and most rural North Dakotans). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I&#8217;m pretty sure the Secretary of Transportation is one of the Cabinet offices, like Education and Energy, that we could get rid of tomorrow and nobody would notice. But with that said: If Trump were still president, and Elaine Chao were sitting on the sidelines during a national crisis squarely involving (for better or worse) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79761,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79760\/revisions\/79761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}