{"id":12313,"date":"2016-06-20T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12313"},"modified":"2016-06-20T11:43:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:43:54","slug":"too-good-to-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12313","title":{"rendered":"Too good to be true&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.I usually have to read some news item in at least a couple of places before I will believe it&#8230;but, sometimes something comes along that I just want to be true so that requirement is suspended&#8230;one of those came along yesterday with rumors the Clarence Thomas is thinking of retiring from the supreme court. I know, your first thought is &#8220;who would notice?&#8221; since he holds the\u00a0 record for the fewest questions asked by a justice in the history of the court and has no thoughts of his own&#8230;acting as little more than an echo chamber for Scalia&#8217;s rantings. I can understand why he would be thinking about leaving now&#8230;after all, when Hillary is elected and appoints a progressive judge, Thomas&#8217;s only job will then be to write dissents to cases that the conservative block will lose and that will just piss those asses off&#8230;maybe we can get Alito to do the same? Or all of the conservatives? All I know is that with progressive control, there won&#8217;t be any more &#8220;Citizen&#8217;s United&#8221; or cases that will infringe on a woman&#8217;s right to chose&#8230;to Thomas all I have to say is don&#8217;t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out&#8230;.geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.I usually have to read some news item in at least a couple of places before I will believe it&#8230;but, sometimes something comes along that I just want to be true so that requirement is suspended&#8230;one of those came along yesterday with rumors the Clarence Thomas is thinking of retiring from the supreme court. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too good to be true&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[575,151],"class_list":["post-12313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-clarence-thomas","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12316,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313\/revisions\/12316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}