{"id":682,"date":"2009-12-28T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=682"},"modified":"2009-12-28T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T19:45:53","slug":"a-useful-bargaining-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"A Useful Bargaining Chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would leave this is as a comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biglizards.net\/blog\/\">Big Lizards<\/a>, but the comment software won&#8217;t let me.<\/p>\n<p>Dafydd of Big Lizards <a href=\"http:\/\/biglizards.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/12\/will_bo_even_ru.html\">predicts<\/a> that Obama will not run for reelection, but will instead &#8216;trade up&#8217; to General Secretary of the United Nations. In the first two comments, Steven Den Beste objects that &#8220;the SG of the UN can&#8217;t be from a veto power&#8221;, and Dafydd retorts &#8220;Any rule can be waived&#8221;. Not to give anyone any ideas, but I can see Obama offering to give up the veto power in return for the Secretary Generalship, or even just for the Hell of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would leave this is as a comment on Big Lizards, but the comment software won&#8217;t let me. Dafydd of Big Lizards predicts that Obama will not run for reelection, but will instead &#8216;trade up&#8217; to General Secretary of the United Nations. In the first two comments, Steven Den Beste objects that &#8220;the SG of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}