{"id":4229,"date":"2018-09-03T00:58:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T07:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2018-09-03T00:58:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T07:58:57","slug":"john-mccain-and-the-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/09\/03\/john-mccain-and-the-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"John McCain and the Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next day, we had <strong>John McCain<\/strong>\u2019s funeral \u2013 more notable for people who were not there (or purposely banned) than for those who were.&nbsp; I will say it did my heart good to see <strong>Laura Bush <\/strong>hand <strong>Michelle Obama <\/strong>a piece of candy \u2013 talk about reaching across the aisle!&nbsp; However, one gesture left me a bit cold.&nbsp; Is it acceptable in the Episcopal tradition for a reverend to take a selfie?&nbsp; First, do reverends typically carry their cell phone during a service, let alone a funeral?&nbsp; Secondly, isn\u2019t it at least a little rude to ask <strong>George W.<\/strong> for a selfie when Obama is standing right next to you?&nbsp; Reminds me of when I ran into <strong>Joanna Cassidy <\/strong>at the <em>Emmys<\/em>, but I\u2019ll save that for another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next day, we had John McCain\u2019s funeral \u2013 more notable for people who were not there (or purposely banned) than for those who were.&nbsp; I will say it did my heart good to see Laura Bush hand Michelle Obama a piece of candy \u2013 talk about reaching across the aisle!&nbsp; However, one gesture left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}