{"id":4810,"date":"2016-04-08T08:36:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T12:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4810"},"modified":"2016-04-08T08:38:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T12:38:57","slug":"fight-fire-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4810","title":{"rendered":"FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama must now make it clear that he is not going to let the Republicans mug this country and its democratic system of government: if they continue to refuse to give Merrick Garland a hearing, he will be forced to go ahead and seat Garland on the court without a hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Obama has never really been able to wrap his mind around who and what the current GOP is&#8211;but, on the other hand, it&#8217;s never too late!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama must now make it clear that he is not going to let the Republicans mug this country and its democratic system of government: if they continue to refuse to give Merrick Garland a hearing, he will be forced &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4810\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4813,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions\/4813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}