{"id":8833,"date":"2008-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"history-and-the-really-very-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/history-and-the-really-very-weird.html","title":{"rendered":"History and the Really Very Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times &#8211; Back when he was vice president, Dan Quayle noted that: &ldquo;People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have tremendous impact on history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He was right, as the Germans know, even if his own impact was limited by the fact the president he was understudying for stayed alive.<\/p>\n<p>Quayle&rsquo;s words came back to me because, like a lot Americans, I&rsquo;ve come down with Palinitis: the acute fear that Sarah Palin might get into one of those &ldquo;sensitive positions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/13\/opinion\/13cohen.html%3Fref%3Dopinion\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times &#8211; Back when he was vice president, Dan Quayle noted that: &ldquo;People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have tremendous impact on history.&rdquo; He was right, as the Germans know, even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[769,67,2796,1248],"class_list":["post-8833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-ashe","tag-chief-executive","tag-dealer-operations","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}