{"id":112,"date":"2006-11-08T10:55:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=112"},"modified":"2006-11-08T10:55:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T17:55:23","slug":"a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2006\/11\/a-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"a new beginning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I hope is a new beginning for the United States.&nbsp; Voters have made a loud and clear statement of unhappiness with the direction of our country.&nbsp; The balance of power has clearly shifted in the House of Representatives and currently looks to swing in the Senate as well.&nbsp; However, we will not know the results of the final Senate race for probably a month.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the elections were good news in its own right.&nbsp; However even better news came this morning.&nbsp; Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down as the Secretary of Defense.&nbsp; Perhaps now, the military leaders can actually implement strategies that will help end the conflict in Iraq instead of inciting conflict. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I hope is a new beginning for the United States.&nbsp; Voters have made a loud and clear statement of unhappiness with the direction of our country.&nbsp; The balance of power has clearly shifted in the House of Representatives and currently looks to swing in the Senate as well.&nbsp; However, we will not know the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2006\/11\/a-new-beginning\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[237,193,49,533],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-global-world","tag-america","tag-government","tag-politics","tag-the-global-world","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}