{"id":115,"date":"2007-11-07T23:08:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T04:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2007-11-07T23:09:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T04:09:17","slug":"the-meaning-of-is-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"The meaning of is is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dahlia Lithwick, by far, my favorite <em>Slate <\/em>columnist, wrote this piece today about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2177560\/nav\/tap1\/\">Michael Mukasey&#8217;s supposed &#8220;independence&#8221;<\/a> as proved by his understanding of what torture is.  It all depends on what the meaning of the word <em>is <\/em>is.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Finally it&#8217;s clear: In the Age of George W. Bush, a truly independent attorney general is at his best when he is &#8220;independent&#8221; of the Rule of Law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dahlia Lithwick, by far, my favorite Slate columnist, wrote this piece today about Michael Mukasey&#8217;s supposed &#8220;independence&#8221; as proved by his understanding of what torture is. It all depends on what the meaning of the word is is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,36,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-issues","category-law","category-politics","category-the-war-on-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}