{"id":3273,"date":"2014-10-20T21:26:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T03:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2014-10-20T21:26:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T03:26:44","slug":"in-the-vanguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2014\/10\/20\/in-the-vanguard\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Vanguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You saw him, didn\u2019t you? Governor Poindexter up there on the stage looking serious, speaking to the cameras, taking charge of the epidemic that\u2019s gripped the nation, posing in front of that Texas hospital that was in the vanguard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Except that the hospital didn\u2019t manage things quite like they would have liked. Not quite as the governor would have liked, perhaps. And stop for a moment. Think about it. When is the last time you saw Governor Poindexter saying serious things and gazing thru his serious glasses from the hospital podium with the staff and administrators gathered around? When was the last time?<\/p>\n<p>Funny that. He seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/10\/14\/politics\/perry-in-europe-during-ebola\/index.html\">taking a trip to Europe<\/a> now. Being in the vanguard seems to have seriously lost its luster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You saw him, didn\u2019t you? Governor Poindexter up there on the stage looking serious, speaking to the cameras, taking charge of the epidemic that\u2019s gripped the nation, posing in front of that Texas hospital that was in the vanguard.\u00a0 Except that the hospital didn\u2019t manage things quite like they would have liked. Not quite as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}