{"id":934,"date":"2009-07-30T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/30\/mchugh-no-delusions-as-to-the-tough-challenges-ahead\/"},"modified":"2009-07-30T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T17:57:00","slug":"mchugh-no-delusions-as-to-the-tough-challenges-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/30\/mchugh-no-delusions-as-to-the-tough-challenges-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"McHugh: &quot;no delusions as to the tough challenges ahead&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching this morning&#8217;s confirmation hearings for John McHugh to become Secretary of the Army.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/Watch\/Media\/2009\/07\/30\/HP\/A\/21510\/Senate+Armed+Services+Cmte+Hearing+on+Army+and+Navy+Nominations.aspx\">They&#8217;re archived here on C-SPAN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No surprises.  The most interesting parts are when Sen. McCain grills McHugh for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/archive.php?id=13781\">accepting campaign contributions from PMA Group<\/a>, a lobbying firm that&#8217;s under FBI investigation, and when McHugh says it&#8217;ll take 5 or 6 years to fill the gap in mid-level officers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have a report this afternoon on All Before Five and tomorrow on The 8 O&#8217;Clock Hour.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Hey, it&#8217;s almost Friday, right?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/14071\/mchugh-faces-questions-assurances-at-confirmation-hearing\">Get a sneak preview of the story now.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching this morning&#8217;s confirmation hearings for John McHugh to become Secretary of the Army. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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\/934"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}