{"id":10395,"date":"2005-03-09T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T15:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10395"},"modified":"2005-09-06T00:25:37","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T04:25:37","slug":"a-nation-rejoices-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/09\/a-nation-rejoices-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"A nation rejoices &#8211; part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun  <a href=\"\/wordpress\/?p=10317\">sets<\/a> on every empire, no matter how treacherous and overdrawn.  After twenty-four years of enraging CBS viewers, Dan Rather is, at long last, exhibiting a shred of class and resigning.  Tonight, the voice of bias and derision surrenders the nightly news cast crown for good.  Wow, that took forever.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t cry for Mr. Rather too loudly.  He&#8217;ll hold 60 Minute and 60 Minute Wednesday viewers hostage into the foreseeable future.  There&#8217;ll be guest anchor spots, speaking engagements and if we will it real hard, maybe a book or five.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good first step.  Now, If Mr. Rather wants to resign his other gigs, I&#8217;m in his corner 100 percent.  To Mr. Rather I say, you&#8217;re on a roll, sir.  Don&#8217;t quit quitting now!  Give the audience what they want, and do it all the way.  Do this for me and  I&#8217;ll buy you a <a href='http:\/\/carvel.com\/cakecarousel_nf.asp?page=showthelove&#038;cake=cookiepuss'>Cookie Puss<\/a> AND <a href='http:\/\/carvel.com\/cakecarousel_nf.asp?page=showthelove&#038;cake=fudgie'>Fudgie the Whale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun sets on every empire, no matter how treacherous and overdrawn. After twenty-four years of enraging CBS viewers, Dan Rather is, at long last, exhibiting a shred of class and resigning. Tonight, the voice of bias and derision surrenders the nightly news cast crown for good. Wow, that took forever. Don&#8217;t cry for Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}