{"id":1786,"date":"2005-09-30T13:42:28","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/cronyincompeten\/"},"modified":"2005-09-30T13:42:28","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T17:42:28","slug":"cronyincompeten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/09\/cronyincompeten\/","title":{"rendered":"Crony-Incompetence Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This seems awfully familiar:<br \/>\n(1) Candidate X has connections to President Bush.<br \/>\n(2)  Notwithstanding the fact that X has no expertise or qualifications for a particular job, Bush selects him or her to an important government post.<br \/>\n(3)  Once on the job, X proceeds to <a title=\"Bin Laden's little helper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0,12271,1581655,00.html\">make things worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/09\/cronyincompeten\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Crony-Incompetence Strikes Again\"><p>This seems awfully familiar: (1) Candidate X has connections to President Bush. (2) Notwithstanding the fact that X has no expertise or qualifications for a particular job, Bush selects him or her to an important government post. (3) Once on the job, X proceeds to make things worse.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}