{"id":559,"date":"2005-07-06T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameslick.com\/blog\/?p=559"},"modified":"2005-07-06T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T17:45:00","slug":"in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"In The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged Karl Rove treason is getting mixed coverage, but it did make it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front?pubdate=2005-07-05\">Front Page of the Taipei Times<\/a> today, so I guess I was somewhat overly pessimistic in my claims that it probably wouldn&#8217;t make the front page.  Anyone care to comment on where it was placed in your hometown newspaper?  Elsewhere, an article by Ted Rall makes the claim <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ucru\/20050704\/cm_ucru\/karlroveworsethanosamabinladen\/nc:742\">KARL ROVE: WORSE THAN OSAMA BIN LADEN<\/a> while the jokers over at Unconfirmed Sources cover the story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unconfirmedsources.com\/?itemid=1052&amp;catid=8\">Karl Rove Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom For Defending Identity of Valerie Plame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2002357621_gays05.html\">United Church of Christ votes to endorse gay marriage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was brought up going to United Church of Christ churches, so I&#8217;m especially happy about this vote.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And finally, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/\">Taipei Times<\/a> editorial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/editorials\/archives\/2005\/07\/05\/2003262308\">Call a spade a spade<\/a>, Brian Schack writes a very funny letter in reaction to the Dennis Hickey editorial I wrote about here a few days ago.  It doesn&#8217;t take much following of Taiwan-China affairs to notice the things he lampoons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged Karl Rove treason is getting mixed coverage, but it did make it to the Front Page of the Taipei Times today, so I guess I was somewhat overly pessimistic in my claims that it probably wouldn&#8217;t make the front page. Anyone care to comment on where it was placed in your hometown newspaper? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=559\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In The News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}