{"id":319,"date":"2008-11-27T18:22:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T18:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2008-11-27T18:22:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T18:22:50","slug":"things_im_thankful_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;m Thankful For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t put this at the top of my list of things to be thankful for, but this article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/Opinion\/DonSurber\/200811260495\">Charleston Daily Mail<\/a>&nbsp;caused me to think about some of the things I take for granted.&nbsp; We forget the difficult transition from the Clinton adminstration to the Bush adminstration.&nbsp; We couldn&#8217;t afford that difficult transition then (there will always be the possibility that 9\/11 could have been avoided had we not had all the political backbiting that was going on), and we certainly can&#8217;t afford it now.&nbsp; Yet, if you are paying attention, you can&#8217;t help but notice that George Bush has been a total gentleman about the transition of power to Barack Obama.&nbsp; He is modeling what transition should look like in a healthy democracy&#8211;regardless (or in spite of) political differences.&nbsp; We take it for granted that we have gone seven years without an attack on our country.&nbsp; Remember the fear after 9\/11 of not knowing when the next attack would come.&nbsp; We have forgotten that.&nbsp; Anyway, the article reminded me of some of things I have learned to appreciate (and often take for granted) about George Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t put this at the top of my list of things to be thankful for, but this article in the Charleston Daily Mail&nbsp;caused me to think about some of the things I take for granted.&nbsp; We forget the difficult &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=319\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}