{"id":11106,"date":"2021-03-31T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=11106"},"modified":"2021-03-31T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:18:39","slug":"the-trick-is-not-to-mind-that-youre-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/11106","title":{"rendered":"The Trick Is Not To Mind That You&#8217;re Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Liddytot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11107\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Liddytot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Liddytot.jpg 744w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Liddytot-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/gordon-liddy-dead\/2021\/03\/30\/4d50c40c-91ae-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a>: Mr. Liddy\u2019s combination of can-do ruthlessness, loyalty to Nixon and ends-justify-the-means philosophy made him a natural fit in a White House determined to get even with its political enemies.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he was viewed by his superiors as \u201ca little nuts,\u201d in Nixon\u2019s phrase. \u201cI mean, he just isn\u2019t well screwed on, is he?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/djrothkopf\/status\/1377047938229276675?s=20\">David Rothkopf tweets<\/a>: <em>The juxtaposition of the Matt Gaetz story with the death of G. Gordon Liddy story reminds us yet again that the lunatic, criminal loyalists around Donald Trump are of a much lower caliber than were the lunatic, criminal loyalists around Richard Nixon.<\/em> A coworker replied to my comment on this, that it was strange to think of Nixon&#8217;s reputation being redeemed. But the fact is that no matter how far you&#8217;ve fallen, even hitting rock bottom, give it time and eventually someone else will dig the abyss a bit deeper.<\/p>\n<p>You see? There&#8217;s hope for everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From The Washington Post: Mr. Liddy\u2019s combination of can-do ruthlessness, loyalty to Nixon and ends-justify-the-means philosophy made him a natural fit in a White House determined to get even with its political enemies. At the same time, he was viewed by his superiors as \u201ca little nuts,\u201d in Nixon\u2019s phrase. \u201cI mean, he just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[118,20,6],"class_list":["post-11106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-republican-america","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}