{"id":276,"date":"2009-01-06T06:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2009-01-06T06:59:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T13:59:44","slug":"about-that-inexperience-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"About That &#8220;Inexperience&#8221; Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most frequently leveled charges made against Sarah Palin during the campaign was her lack of experience in dealing with foreign affairs.  I had to smile when I read that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.state.ak.us\/news.php?id=1595\">Governor Palin hosted a contingent of about two dozen foreign diplomats from all over the world<\/a>, including Russia, China, South Korea, New Zealand, several European countries, as well as Canada, last week.  <\/p>\n<p>I wonder when &#8220;The One&#8221; last did anything like that?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/russianambassadorvisit_v012-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"russianambassadorvisit_v012\" title=\"russianambassadorvisit_v012\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/russianambassadorvisit_v012-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/russianambassadorvisit_v012-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/russianambassadorvisit_v012.jpg 1258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nAnd she looks pretty dang competent too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most frequently leveled charges made against Sarah Palin during the campaign was her lack of experience in dealing with foreign affairs. I had to smile when I read that Governor Palin hosted a contingent of about two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=276\">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-4s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"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=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}