{"id":477,"date":"2008-08-12T20:42:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T01:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=477"},"modified":"2008-08-12T20:42:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T01:42:52","slug":"big-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/commentary\/big-surprise","title":{"rendered":"Big Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/sp136.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"22px;\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/sp136.jpg\" alt=\"Gros Morne,  Northern Peninsula, newfoundland\" hspace=\"22\" width=\"175\" height=\"131\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/12\/washington\/13justice.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">NY Times <\/a>&#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attorney General <a title=\"More articles about Michael B Mukasey\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/michael_b_mukasey\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Michael B. Mukasey<\/a> on Tuesday rejected the idea of bringing criminal charges against former Justice Department employees who improperly used political litmus tests in hiring decisions, saying he had already taken strong internal steps in response to a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153painful\u00e2\u20ac\u009d episode.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Times &#8211; Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey on Tuesday rejected the idea of bringing criminal charges against former Justice Department employees who improperly used political litmus tests in hiring decisions, saying he had already taken strong internal steps in response to a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153painful\u00e2\u20ac\u009d episode.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1449],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}