{"id":80963,"date":"2022-02-22T06:57:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T12:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80963"},"modified":"2022-02-22T06:57:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T12:57:59","slug":"were-in-the-best-of-hands-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80963","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re In The Best Of Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday, I was listening to NPR News.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Betty McCollum was apparently part of Vice President Harris&#8217;s dlegation of elite foreign policy experts that President Biden dispatched to Munich to try to avert disaster&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and I know what you&#8217;re saying; that&#8217;s gotta be the punch line, right there.  Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under normal circumstances, you betcha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was an interview with McCollum in which she said (paraphrasing very closely here, since I was in my car, not recording anything) &#8220;there will be severe sanctions if Putin invades Russia&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good job, Mr. President.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Good <\/em>job.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getcher ice cream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, I was listening to NPR News. Betty McCollum was apparently part of Vice President Harris&#8217;s dlegation of elite foreign policy experts that President Biden dispatched to Munich to try to avert disaster&#8230; &#8230;and I know what you&#8217;re saying; that&#8217;s gotta be the punch line, right there. Right? Under normal circumstances, you betcha. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,11],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-80963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace","category-world","tag-mn-cd4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80963","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=80963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80964,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80963\/revisions\/80964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}