{"id":11147,"date":"2011-09-06T10:06:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T14:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11147"},"modified":"2011-09-06T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T14:59:43","slug":"some-insights-on-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11147\/some-insights-on-cheney\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Insights on Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the American Spectator, I provide <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2011\/09\/06\/crediting-the-cheney-chronicle\" target=\"_blank\">a small, informed-third-party view<\/a> of Dick Cheney&#8217;s persona, while clearly taking his side vs. Colin Powell. What I didn&#8217;t write there, because I handed it in before last night, was that all of the remembrances of 9\/11 are bringing into stark relief just how fortunate we were to have Cheney around on that day. I watched a Smithsonian TV special on 9\/11 last night, featuring extensive interviews with Cheney (among dozens of others, of course), and it was striking just how essential it was to have Cheney&#8217;s good judgment and steady hand in the White House while President Bush was airborne for so many hours. A good man and a true statesman, Dick Cheney served his country well. I&#8217;m glad his book is receiving so much attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the American Spectator, I provide a small, informed-third-party view of Dick Cheney&#8217;s persona, while clearly taking his side vs. Colin Powell. What I didn&#8217;t write there, because I handed it in before last night, was that all of the remembrances of 9\/11 are bringing into stark relief just how fortunate we were to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356],"class_list":["post-11147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-dick-cheney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11149,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions\/11149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}