{"id":1861,"date":"2011-01-30T18:37:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T01:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2011-01-30T18:37:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T01:37:32","slug":"the-dreaded-3-a-m-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1861","title":{"rendered":"The Dreaded 3 a.m. Phone Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/images-21.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/images-21.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"images-2\" width=\"234\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1862\" \/><\/a>And the leader of the free world hasn&#8217;t got a clue which end of the phone to talk into.  <\/p>\n<p>HIs VP Joe, the Gaffmeister, Biden is first out of the blocks with an official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/01\/28\/biden-mubarak-step\/\">statement of support<\/a> for Mubarik, claiming the kerfluffle is nothing more than, &#8220;an expression of &#8216;middle-class folks&#8217; looking for &#8216;a little more access and a little more opportunity&#8217;.&#8221;   In the meantime, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried desperately to verbally prop up the floundering regime, first by denying that a problem existed and then by claiming that the whole thing is little more than a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2011\/01\/hillary-clinton-mubarak-should-open-dialogue-with-reformers\/70487\/\">minor dust-up on the road to democracy<\/a> in a strategic Middle Eastern country that can be solved if everybody just works together.  Or something.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, sure.  <\/p>\n<p>Anyone feeling like the grown-ups need to take over?<\/p>\n<p>Too bad there aren&#8217;t any in this administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the leader of the free world hasn&#8217;t got a clue which end of the phone to talk into. HIs VP Joe, the Gaffmeister, Biden is first out of the blocks with an official statement of support for Mubarik, claiming &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1861\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-u1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}