{"id":398,"date":"2008-04-14T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2008-04-14T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T20:34:59","slug":"bitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Bitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Grandest Panjandrum lists why we have a right to be bitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A list of some things that have gone missing since January 2001<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. 4 airplanes;<\/li>\n
  2. 2 towers;<\/li>\n
  3. 3000+ American citizens;<\/li>\n
  4. 4000+ American soldiers;<\/li>\n
  5. Scores of thousands of Iraqis;<\/li>\n
  6. Osama Bin Laden;<\/li>\n
  7. Ayman Al Zawahiri;<\/li>\n
  8. WMD;<\/li>\n
  9. An historic Southern city;<\/li>\n
  10. An 85 year old investment brokerage;<\/li>\n
  11. One third of the value of a dollar;<\/li>\n
  12. $1.50\/gallon gas;<\/li>\n
  13. $25 per barrel crude oil;<\/li>\n
  14. Half a million American family homes;<\/li>\n
  15. 3.2 million jobs;<\/li>\n
  16. Integrity, competence and personal accountability among our public servants;<\/li>\n
  17. The economy of the richest nation in history;
    \nAdding a few items of my own…<\/strong><\/li>\n
  18. The balance and separation of powers between the presidency and the other branches;<\/li>\n
  19. The respect and goodwill of much of the world for America;<\/li>\n
  20. 8 years that could have been used to reverse climate change;<\/li>\n
  21. Britney Spears’s sanity (although I don’t think this one is Bush’s fault.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Grandest Panjandrum lists why we have a right to be bitter: A list of some things that have gone missing since January 2001 4 airplanes; 2 towers; 3000+ American citizens; 4000+ American soldiers; Scores of thousands of Iraqis; Osama Bin Laden; Ayman Al Zawahiri; WMD; An historic Southern city; An 85 year old investment […]<\/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":[22,6,4],"tags":[89,90],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-obama","category-politics","tag-the-bush-administration","tag-the-grandest-panjandrum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8qcx-bitter","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}