{"id":137,"date":"2004-11-10T09:50:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T09:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2004-11-10T09:50:22","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T09:50:22","slug":"ashcroft_resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/10\/ashcroft_resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashcroft Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see in this morning&#8217;s headlines that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/09\/politics\/10ashcroftcnd.html?oref=login&#038;hp&#038;ex=1100062800&#038;en=6f9653d9bea836b3&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage\">Attorney General John Ashcroft has resigned<\/a>.  Two thoughts occurred to me as I was reading about this development. First, if Mr. Bush is really as interested in &#8220;healing the country&#8221; as he said he was in his acceptance speech, he ought to consider nominating a Democrat for this position. I happen to know of a certain former trial lawyer and vice presidential candidate who isn&#8217;t doing much at the moment. And second, maybe now we can behave like grown-ups and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/soapbox\/ashcroft.asp\">uncover Lady Justice&#8217;s breasts&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see in this morning&#8217;s headlines that Attorney General John Ashcroft has resigned. Two thoughts occurred to me as I was reading about this development. First, if Mr. Bush is really as interested in &#8220;healing the country&#8221; as he said he was in his acceptance speech, he ought to consider nominating a Democrat for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}