{"id":6603,"date":"2006-02-13T11:32:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T16:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2006-02-13T11:32:37","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T16:32:37","slug":"i-never-thought-him-an-honest-frank-dealing-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/i-never-thought-him-an-honest-frank-dealing-man\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I never thought him an honest, frank-dealing man&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mean to belabor the Cheney-shooting-incident story, but there&#8217;s one more angle to mention.<\/p>\n<p>As you may have heard, this weekend&#8217;s accident was the first time a sitting vice president has shot someone since Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel on July 11, 1804. With this in mind, I found this to be an appropriate Quote of the Day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I never thought him an honest, frank-dealing man, but considered him as a crooked gun, or other perverted machine, whose aim or shot you could never be sure of.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/jeff\/lewisclark2\/Circa1804\/In1804\/HeadlinesAaronBurrDuel.htm\">Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s description of Burr<\/a>, though the comments seem to reflect Dick Cheney quite well, don&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mean to belabor the Cheney-shooting-incident story, but there&#8217;s one more angle to mention. As you may have heard, this weekend&#8217;s accident was the first time a sitting vice president has shot someone since Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel on July 11, 1804. With this in mind, I found this to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}