{"id":701,"date":"2009-04-08T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T13:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=701"},"modified":"2009-04-08T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T13:28:22","slug":"cuban_paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Paradise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Ed Morrissey at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/04\/08\/congressional-black-caucus-hearts-castros\/\">Hor Air<\/a>, the black caucus has returned from Cuba with rave reviews of the Casto regime.&nbsp; They argued that the embargo has not worked, which may be true, but some of the comments of those who went on the trip are somewhat amazing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It was almost like listening to an old friend,&#8221; said Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Il.), adding that he found Castro&#8217;s home to be modest and Castro&#8217;s wife to be particularly hospitable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor,&#8221; Rush said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyone aware of the civil rights record of the Casto regime has to be amazed by that statement.&nbsp; I suspect there are a number of Cubans in Florida who might have a problem with the above quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Ed Morrissey at Hor Air, the black caucus has returned from Cuba with rave reviews of the Casto regime.&nbsp; They argued that the embargo has not worked, which may be true, but some of the comments of those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=701\">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-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}