{"id":8599,"date":"2009-08-28T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8599"},"modified":"2009-08-28T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T15:15:07","slug":"shakesvilles-mellisa-on-ted-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8599","title":{"rendered":"Shakesville&#039;s Melissa on Ted Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to point out this <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/teddy.html\">excellent remembrance of Ted Kennedy<\/a>, which is particularly relevant to some of the discussion that&#8217;s been going on here at &#8220;Alas&#8221; recently. Melissa writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator Edward Kennedy was a tough guy. He was smart, tenacious, opinionated, strong in body, mind, and spirit. And I think because he was such a tough guy, he won&#8217;t mind if I don&#8217;t share my real and uncensored thoughts on the occasion of his passing.<\/p>\n<p>Teddy, as he was known, was privileged, in every sense of the word. And he made liberal use of his privilege, in ways I admired and ways I did not. The terrible bargain we all seem to have made with Teddy is that we overlooked the occasions when he invoked his privilege as a powerful and well-connected man from a prominent family, because of the career he made using that same privilege to try to make the world a better place for the people dealt a different lot.<\/p>\n<p>Twice, Teddy did despicable things with his privilege, very publicly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/teddy.html\">Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to point out this excellent remembrance of Ted Kennedy, which is particularly relevant to some of the discussion that&#8217;s been going on here at &#8220;Alas&#8221; recently. Melissa writes: Senator Edward Kennedy was a tough guy. He was smart, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8599\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}