{"id":1224,"date":"2008-10-15T10:54:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T15:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2008-10-15T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T15:54:56","slug":"mccain-in-a-plane-over-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"McCain in a Plane over Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I work on a few posts, here’s an excellent profile of John McCain from Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>. There’s no attempt to appear fair and balanced – but the piece gets a number of people who knew John McCain to talk on the record.<\/p>\n

In this piece, Tim Dickinson blows up the myth of the maverick John McCain who grew from a reckless youth to a mature and seasoned patriot while in prison in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Plus, there are some interesting tidbits – like the fact that a young navy pilot named John McCain caused a major diplomatic incident when he deviated from his flight path for a joy ride just above the ground and cut some power lines causing a blackout in much of Spain. Normally, that’s enough to get your wings clipped – but neither that nor the two planes McCain crashed previously seemed to affect his career path – as his father and grandfather were important admirals.<\/p>\n

Perhaps this incident helps explain why McCain still apparently bears a grudge against Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I work on a few posts, here’s an excellent profile of John McCain from Rolling Stone. There’s no attempt to appear fair and balanced – but the piece gets a number of people who knew John McCain to talk on the record. In this piece, Tim Dickinson blows up the myth of the maverick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,45,4,458],"tags":[859,781,860],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-rolling-stone","tag-spain","tag-tim-dickinson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-jK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","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=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}