{"id":893,"date":"2004-06-05T17:59:38","date_gmt":"2004-06-06T01:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/05\/rip-ronald-reagan\/"},"modified":"2004-06-05T17:59:38","modified_gmt":"2004-06-06T01:59:38","slug":"rip-ronald-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Ronald Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Reagan died today.  This is CNN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/06\/05\/reagan.main\/index.html\">write-up<\/a>.  I was born the year Reagan was reelected and so don&#8217;t remember much about his Presidency; my only exposure to him has been through history books and retrospective articles.  Honestly, I don&#8217;t think I liked him and his policies very much, but hope that his passing was peaceful, nonetheless.  Alzheimer&#8217;s is a difficult disease to cope with for both family members and medical staff; I wish no ill on any of them.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> I addressed the issue of whether or not this post was meant as hagiography in the comments section. That aside, I found a couple of good pieces on the pieces of Reagan&#8217;s legacy you&#8217;re likely <i>not<\/i> to hear about in the next few days: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/features\/2003\/0301.green.html\">&#8220;Reagan&#8217;s Liberal Legacy&#8221;<\/a> by Joshua Green from the Washington Monthly \u2014 which has been linked to by a few others, as well \u2014 and, most especially, <a href=\"http:\/\/stevegilliard.blogspot.com\/2004\/06\/ronald-reagan-1911-2004.html\">&#8220;Ronald Reagan 1911-2004&#8221;<\/a> by Steve Gilliard from his blog.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=floxin-shop-empfehlung\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Reagan died today. This is CNN&#8217;s write-up. I was born the year Reagan was reelected and so don&#8217;t remember much about his Presidency; my only exposure to him has been through history books and retrospective articles. Honestly, I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=893\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}