{"id":1075,"date":"2009-09-22T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/09\/22\/how-the-mighty-fall-in-america-with-a-pirouette\/"},"modified":"2009-09-22T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T13:34:00","slug":"how-the-mighty-fall-in-america-with-a-pirouette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/09\/22\/how-the-mighty-fall-in-america-with-a-pirouette\/","title":{"rendered":"How the mighty fall in America (with a pirouette)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen some cringe-inducing things in my career as a reporter; and the world of politics has generated some powerful dramas.<\/p>\n<p>Powerful people brought low.  Misbehavior translated into walks of shame.  Once-proud politicians standing shame-faced before the cameras.<\/p>\n<p>I thought watching Eliot stand with Silda was the pinnacle (the debacle?) of such performances.<\/p>\n<p>But none of it &#8212; none of it &#8212; compares to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/click\/stories\/0909\/delay_gets_dance_fever.html\">watching Tom Delay on &#8220;Dancing with the Stars.&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The vision of &#8220;The Hammer,&#8221; a former insect exterminator turned mega-culture warrior, shaking his tush on national television and doing a Vanilla Ice treatment of &#8220;Wild Thing&#8221; &#8212; well, it will haunt me.<\/p>\n<p>Delay&#8217;s political and financial dealings are still under investigation, but I say the once-mighty Republican has already suffered enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen some cringe-inducing things in my career as a reporter; and the world of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}