{"id":947,"date":"2004-12-07T09:21:49","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T17:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/12\/the_kerik_connection\/"},"modified":"2004-12-07T09:21:49","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T17:21:49","slug":"the_kerik_connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/12\/the_kerik_connection.html","title":{"rendered":"THE KERIK CONNECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why can&#8217;t Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s former chauffeur and body guard become U.S. Secretary of Homeland<br \/>\nSecurity? Well, he can. Everyone says <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/postopinion\/opedcolumnists\/33106.htm\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Bernie Kerik<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> will be confirmed.<br \/>\nBut should he be? <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/columnists\/ny-nyhen034063947dec03,0,2592726.column?c\noll=ny-news-columnists\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Ellis Henican has<br \/>\ndoubts.<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> And <A class=inline href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2110638\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>so does Fred<br \/>\nKaplan.<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>&nbsp;Both also made their case this morning on <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Democracy<br \/>\nNow!<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why can&#8217;t Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s former chauffeur and body guard become U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security? Well, he can. Everyone says Bernie Kerik will be confirmed. But should he be? Ellis Henican has doubts. And so does Fred Kaplan.&nbsp;Both also made their case this morning on Democracy Now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}