{"id":426,"date":"2007-12-14T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/14\/the-games-people-play-in-politics\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T00:09:00","slug":"the-games-people-play-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/14\/the-games-people-play-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Games People Play in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I listen to certain pundits and politicians commenting upon other pundits and politicians that they don&#8217;t like, some of their criticisms remind me of a certain quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cardinal Richelou, French Minister and Cardinal, 1585-1642<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I listen to certain pundits and politicians commenting upon other pundits and politicians that they don&#8217;t like, some of their criticisms remind me of a certain quote: If you give me six lines written by the hand of the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/14\/the-games-people-play-in-politics\/\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}