{"id":130,"date":"2004-06-05T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2004-06-05T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3500years.com\/zsallia\/?p=130"},"modified":"2004-06-05T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2004-06-05T15:03:06","slug":"ronald-wilson-reagan-1911-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/2004\/06\/05\/ronald-wilson-reagan-1911-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1911-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed Ronald Reagan&#8217;s presidency.  Whereas others were aghast at the notion of an actor as President, I saw it as a fitting evolution.  I never cared for him as an actor, but that says little, as I have no real attraction to the cinema.  I was in California when he was governor and I was rather taken with him then despite my affected bohemian ways.<\/p>\n<p>I admired his optimism.  That alone made him the best solution to the malaise of the late 1970&#8217;s.  I admired his commitment to his beliefs and his belief in the ideology of his nation. He was an implacable foe to communism and his stand against that soul-destroying cancer would have been enough all by itself to endear him to me.  He is one of the very few political leaders I have ever had any feelings for.<\/p>\n<p>Rest In Peace, Mr. President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed Ronald Reagan&#8217;s presidency. Whereas others were aghast at the notion of an actor as President, I saw it as a fitting evolution. I never cared for him as an actor, but that says little, as I have no real attraction to the cinema. I was in California when he was governor and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-present"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}