{"id":1836,"date":"2011-02-15T07:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2011\/02\/and_the_presidential_medal_of\/"},"modified":"2011-02-15T07:08:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T15:08:03","slug":"and_the_presidential_medal_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2011\/02\/and_the_presidential_medal_of.html","title":{"rendered":"And the Presidential Medal of the Plutocracy Goes to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2010\/11\/17\/2010-11-17_president_obama_to_award_george_w_bush_the_presidential_medal_of_freedom_.html\">Take a guess.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The magnanimous gesture of bestowing the nation&#8217;s highest civilian honor to the 41st U.S. President [George H.W. Bush] came a day after ex-President George W. Bush gave a respectful nod to Obama at the groundbreaking of [the younger Bush&#8217;s] library in Dallas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The medal ceremony is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/2011\/02\/president_obama_official_sched_535.html\">scheduled today<\/a> at the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-tC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}