{"id":1929,"date":"2017-07-25T16:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T23:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2017-07-25T16:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T23:52:42","slug":"profile-in-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=1929","title":{"rendered":"Profile in Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t help but think Sen John McCain is one tough mother. Plane crashes, torture, visits to the Hanoi Hilton.<\/p>\n<p>Walking across the Senate to vote &#8216;aye&#8217; on proceeding to debate two days after brain cancer surgery, with a nasty looking scar over his left eye.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m not sure he&#8217;s actually in favor of the healthcare bill as it now stands. But he gets on a plane to cast the deciding vote to proceed on debate. And, somehow, four other senators get on the bus, either because he&#8217;s there, or Trump, Pence &amp; Co\u00a0twisted some arms\u00a0to the breaking point. Sens Collins and Murkowski have to be thinking tonight &#8216;we look like such wimps and idiots&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll grant you that I owe some favors to Johnny Mac. He found the funding to keep a Navy book project going (twice) for me and my coauthor when there weren&#8217;t supposedly any funds to be had, because he believed the Navy needed better leadership.<\/p>\n<p>So, I say, go Johnny go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t help but think Sen John McCain is one tough mother. Plane crashes, torture, visits to the Hanoi Hilton. Walking across the Senate to vote &#8216;aye&#8217; on proceeding to debate two days after brain cancer surgery, with a nasty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=1929\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[822,800,774],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}