{"id":491,"date":"2007-11-29T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T19:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rynosoft.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2008-04-07T00:16:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T07:16:14","slug":"henry-hyde-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/henry-hyde-died","title":{"rendered":"Henry Hyde died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rejoiced when I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/11\/29\/hyde.obit\/index.html\" target=\"cnn\">this story<\/a> on CNN about the recent passing of Henry Hyde. Back when the House voted to impeach President Clinton, I noted the names of all those that led the fiasco: Bob Barr, Trent Lott and, more than anyone else, Henry Hyde. However, when I perused the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Hyde\" target=\"wikipedia\">Wikipedia article<\/a> about Hyde, the Lewinski scandal was not the only misdeed in his political career. He also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Said that the Constitution&#8217;s demands concerning the declaration of war were &#8220;anachronistic&#8221; and &#8220;inappropriate.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Attributed his extramarital affair with a married woman to &#8220;youthful indiscretion.&#8221; He was 41 at the time of the affair.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Republicans are supposed to be &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strict_constructionism\" target=\"wikipedia\">strict constructionists<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;family values&#8221;, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rejoiced when I saw this story on CNN about the recent passing of Henry Hyde. Back when the House voted to impeach President Clinton, I noted the names of all those that led the fiasco: Bob Barr, Trent Lott and, more than anyone else, Henry Hyde. However, when I perused the Wikipedia article about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/henry-hyde-died\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Henry Hyde died&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[198,1562],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-death","tag-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peh6u-7V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}