{"id":2156,"date":"2007-01-15T10:57:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/hirohito_effect\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T15:57:06","slug":"hirohito_effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/01\/hirohito_effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Hirohito Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The apparently-departed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billmon.org\/\">Billmon<\/a> periodically referred to Emperor Hirohito&#8217;s incredible face-saving spin during his radio broadcast announcing surrender (World War II) to the Japanese people:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the best that has been done by everyone-the gallant fighting of the military and naval forces, the diligence and assiduity of our servants of the State and the devoted service of our 100,000,000 people-the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan&#8217;s advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The situation has developed not necessarily to Japan&#8217;s advantage&#8221;&#8211;that&#8217;s one way of putting it.<br \/>\nToday we seemingly have <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/01\/14\/cheney-enormous-progress\/\">our own Emperor Hirohito<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WALLACE: Mr. Vice President, why should we believe that this time you&#8217;ve got it right?<br \/>\nCHENEY: If you look at what&#8217;s transpired in Iraq, Chris, we have in fact made enormous progress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One has to wonder how Cheney maintains credibility in <em>anyone&#8217;s<\/em> mind these days.  But apparently he does, both inside the White House and among the 33%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/01\/hirohito_effect\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Hirohito Effect\"><p>The apparently-departed Billmon periodically referred to Emperor Hirohito&#8217;s incredible face-saving spin during his radio broadcast announcing surrender (World War II) to the Japanese people: Despite the best that has been done by everyone-the gallant fighting of the military and naval forces, the diligence and assiduity of our servants of the State and the devoted service [&hellip;]<\/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-2156","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\/2156","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=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}