{"id":65,"date":"2006-11-08T17:32:54","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T22:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2006\/11\/08\/christmas-in-november\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T17:32:54","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T22:32:54","slug":"christmas-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2006\/11\/08\/christmas-in-november","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in my political memory, the day after an election doesn&#8217;t feel like a funeral. We had high hopes, and they were acheieved. We&#8217;ll have to wait for Virginia, but just having Speaker Nancy is a step in the right direction. In honor of this auspicious day, please enjoy some poetry from the *Former* Secretary of Defense himself, Donald Rumsfeld. Stolen from Hart Seely, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2081042\/\">slate.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n<pre>\nAs we know, \nThere are known knowns. \nThere are things we know we know. \nWe also know \nThere are known unknowns. \nThat is to say \nWe know there are some things \nWe do not know. \nBut there are also unknown unknowns, \nThe ones we don't know \nWe don't know. \n- Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing\n<\/pre>\n<p><em>A Confession<\/em><\/p>\n<pre>\nOnce in a while, \nI'm standing here, doing something. \nAnd I think, \n\"What in the world am I doing here?\" \nIt's a big surprise. \n- May 16, 2001 , interview with the New York Times\n<\/pre>\n<p><em>Clarity<\/em><\/p>\n<pre>\nI think what you'll find, \nI think what you'll find is, \nWhatever it is we do substantively, \nThere will be near-perfect clarity \nAs to what it is. \n\nAnd it will be known, \nAnd it will be known to the Congress, \nAnd it will be known to you, \nProbably before we decide it, \nBut it will be known. \n- Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing\n<\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/josh\/files\/rand\/rummy.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of David Rees&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnftiu.cc\/\">Get Your War On<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in my political memory, the day after an election doesn&#8217;t feel like a funeral. We had high hopes, and they were acheieved. We&#8217;ll have to wait for Virginia, but just having Speaker Nancy is a step in the right direction. In honor of this auspicious day, please enjoy some poetry from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30,39],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unmapped","tag-happiness","tag-liberty"],"geo":{"latitude":42.3601151,"longitude":-71.0916519,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}