{"id":1691,"date":"2017-09-06T08:05:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T04:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2017-09-06T08:05:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T04:05:18","slug":"the-reagan-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"The Reagan Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night I watched one of\u00a0CNN&#8217;s\u00a0new original programs called <em>The Reagan Show<\/em>. Yup, CNN doing a special on Ronald Reagan. I wasn&#8217;t exactly expecting it to be complimentary, but jeez Louise, could they have tried to make Reagan look any more silly? &#8220;Hit piece&#8221; is about the way I&#8217;d describe it.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble is, for CNN, it just didn&#8217;t come off. Try to make Ronald Reagan look silly and the spell gets reversed back upon you. Ronald Reagan does not look silly. He&#8217;s the James Bond of presidents. He could be riding a moon buggy in Las Vegas (watch <em>Diamonds Are Forever<\/em>) and would still look cool doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Nice try, CNN. You just made me like Ronald Reagan that much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night I watched one of\u00a0CNN&#8217;s\u00a0new original programs called The Reagan Show. Yup, CNN doing a special on Ronald Reagan. I wasn&#8217;t exactly expecting it to be complimentary, but jeez Louise, could they have tried to make Reagan look any &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1691\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}