{"id":288,"date":"2008-02-26T14:47:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T19:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2008-02-25T23:48:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T04:48:24","slug":"renegade-and-romantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Renegade and Romantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/22\/opinion\/22brooks.html?pagewanted=print\">David Brooks sees another two sides of Mr. McCain<\/a>.  (Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=262\">Ryan Lizza saw two different sides<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The Davis-Weaver rivalry has lasted for so long because John McCain has a foot in each camp. McCain is, on one level, a figure of the Washington mainstream. He admires Alan Greenspan and Henry Kissinger. He appreciates a steady manager like Davis.<\/p>\n<p>But McCain is also a renegade and a romantic. He loves tilting at the establishment and shaking things up. He loves books and movies in which the hero dies at the end while serving a noble, if lost, cause. He loves the insurgent\/band-of-brothers ethos that Weaver exudes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both Mr. Brooks and Mr. Lizza are trying to explain the same phenomenon: how Mr. McCain can survive, and even thrive, in Washington for a quarter of a century while appearing to many as an outsider trying to reform the system.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks sees another two sides of Mr. McCain. (Last week Ryan Lizza saw two different sides.) The Davis-Weaver rivalry has lasted for so long because John McCain has a foot in each camp. McCain is, on one level, a figure of the Washington mainstream. He admires Alan Greenspan and Henry Kissinger. He appreciates a [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-4E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}