{"id":86570,"date":"2023-11-29T07:14:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86570"},"modified":"2023-11-29T07:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:14:16","slug":"throwback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86570","title":{"rendered":"Throwback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s come up on the blog before &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t a big Jimmy Carter fan.  The consequences of Carter&#8217;s one term in office played a disproportionate role in my becoming a conservative in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s garnered a lot of hagiography for his philanthropic work over the past 40 years or so &#8211; and earned a few brickbats for his dingbat contributions to foreign policy.  Like President, lie Ex-President. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there&#8217;s a throwback aspect to Carter that we could use more of; the idea that political opponents weren&#8217;t entirely sub-human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family of his late wife Rosalynn did something I can&#8217;t imagine a lot of Democrats, and even a few Republicans, doing today:<\/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\">\u201cRosalynn Carter\u2019s family said she specifically wanted Melania Trump to know she was invited to the service. In a time of division, she hoped all the first ladies would join in a show of solidarity as her farewell tribute,\u201d per \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marycjordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@marycjordan<\/a>\u2069:  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l8wtkzdrsX\">https:\/\/t.co\/l8wtkzdrsX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaxAlemany\/status\/1729657866871525459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve most certainly gotten cynical over the years.  I&#8217;m not alone &#8211; the funerals of Paul Wellstone and George Floyd certainly set the bar for public funerals, and set it very, very low.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see <em>someone <\/em>can still get over it. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s come up on the blog before &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t a big Jimmy Carter fan. The consequences of Carter&#8217;s one term in office played a disproportionate role in my becoming a conservative in the first place. He&#8217;s garnered a lot of hagiography for his philanthropic work over the past 40 years or so &#8211; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86570","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=86570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86571,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86570\/revisions\/86571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}