{"id":40753,"date":"2024-08-12T18:17:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T23:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40753"},"modified":"2024-08-12T18:17:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T23:17:59","slug":"a-fish-or-a-mooring-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/08\/12\/a-fish-or-a-mooring-post\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fish Or A Mooring Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Acyn\/status\/1822058848330641692?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speaking truth to power<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mesa, AZ Republican Mayor John Giles: I do not recognize my party. I have something to say to those of us who are in the middle: You don\u2019t owe a damn thing to that party. You don\u2019t owe anything to a party that is out of touch and hell-bent on taking us backward. And by all means, you owe no loyalty to a candidate who is morally and ethically bankrupt. In the spirit of the great Senator John McCain, please join me in putting country over party and stopping Donald Trump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Taking the Republican Party back from the extremists spawned by Gingrich&#8217;s Precepts will take more than Mr Giles, but he&#8217;s an important step. Mr Giles is a mooring post, ignoring the flood that pushes the fish about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking truth to power: Mesa, AZ Republican Mayor John Giles: I do not recognize my party. I have something to say to those of us who are in the middle: You don\u2019t owe a damn thing to that party. You don\u2019t owe anything to a party that is out of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/08\/12\/a-fish-or-a-mooring-post\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40754,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40753\/revisions\/40754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}