{"id":320,"date":"2013-10-14T07:15:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T11:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/?p=320"},"modified":"2013-10-14T07:15:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T11:15:57","slug":"compromise-and-ultimate-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/14\/compromise-and-ultimate-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Compromise, and ultimate results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"userContent\">Grant did not compromise with Lee, but demanded unconditional surrender, and today the South is a better place for it, because the cancer at its heart &#8212; slavery &#8212; was destroyed. MacArthur did not compromise with Hirohito, but demanded unconditional surrender, and today Japan is a better place for it, because the cancer at its heart &#8212; a brutal military dictatorship &#8212; was destroyed. Today there are three cancers at the heart of the Republican Party. (1) The belief that they can subvert the legislative process by blackmailing the government into not enforcing a law that was properly passed, signed and approved by the Supreme Court. (2) The belief that our government can function properly under constant threat of shutdown. (3) The belief that debts need not be paid. Demand unconditional surrender! Destroy these cancers, and the Republican Party will be better for it.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant did not compromise with Lee, but demanded unconditional surrender, and today the South is a better place for it, because the cancer at its heart &#8212; slavery &#8212; was destroyed. MacArthur did not compromise with Hirohito, but demanded unconditional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/14\/compromise-and-ultimate-results\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,22,66],"tags":[133,139,134,137,135,136,138,140,132],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-rants","tag-compromise","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-grant","tag-hirohito","tag-lee","tag-macarthur","tag-obamacare","tag-shutdown","tag-unconditional-surrender"],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}