{"id":16367,"date":"2025-04-28T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16367"},"modified":"2025-04-28T17:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:06:56","slug":"america-needs-friends-even-if-they-are-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16367","title":{"rendered":"America needs friends, even if they are Canadian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/04\/28\/america-needs-friends-even-if-they-are-canadian\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/04\/28\/america-needs-friends-even-if-they-are-canadian\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words matter! We\u2019re reading Peggy Noonan\u2019s fun and fond remembrance of her days in the Reagan White House, What I Saw at the Revolution; a political life in the Reagan era.\u201d Published 35 years ago, Peggy\u2019s effervescent writing has lost none of its intoxicating fizz. Peggy wrote Reagan\u2019s immortal \u201cBoys of Point d\u2019Hoc\u201d speech at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/04\/28\/america-needs-friends-even-if-they-are-canadian\/ Words matter! We\u2019re reading Peggy Noonan\u2019s fun and fond&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16368,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367\/revisions\/16368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}