{"id":1538,"date":"2009-07-01T15:34:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T21:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2009-07-01T15:52:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T21:52:21","slug":"honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That notorious right wing rag &#8212; the New Republic &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tnr.com\/tnr\/blogs\/the_plank\/archive\/2009\/06\/29\/fetishizing-the-presidency.aspx\">scolds<\/a> Obama over his response to the events in Honduras.  I must say that I agree.  People seem to placing the &#8220;will of the people&#8221; and &#8220;democratically elected leader&#8221; over the rule of law and the will of the legislature.  It doesn&#8217;t matter how popular or democratic this asshole was &#8212; what he was doing was illegal.  If George Bush had tried to keep himself in office after January, I would <i>hope<\/i> our military would have arrested his ass.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Obama continues to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/white-house-backing-of-zelaya-starts-to-draw-criticism-2009-06-30.html\">disappoint<\/a>, now supporting a UN resolution in favor of Zelaya.  Because there&#8217;s nothing the UN (and apparently now Obama) like more than an autocrat.  Out of curiosity &#8212; is the UN condemning Iran?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That notorious right wing rag &#8212; the New Republic &#8212; scolds Obama over his response to the events in Honduras. I must say that I agree. People seem to placing the &#8220;will of the people&#8221; and &#8220;democratically elected leader&#8221; over the rule of law and the will of the legislature. It doesn&#8217;t matter how popular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1538\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Honduras<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-honduras","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}