{"id":6439,"date":"2008-12-23T08:47:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T13:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6439"},"modified":"2008-12-23T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T14:55:18","slug":"can-you-hear-heads-exploding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6439","title":{"rendered":"Can you hear heads exploding? [Jonn]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2008\/12\/23\/report-gates-asks-bush-war-team-stay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gates has apparently asked<\/a> many Bush Administration appointees to remain at the Defense Department;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The unusual request ensures that key policy positions will not be left to &#8220;acting&#8221; subordinates as typically occurs when political appointees are directed to resign during a presidential transition, according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have received authorization from the president-elect&#8217;s transition team to extend a number of Department of Defense political appointees an invitation to voluntarily remain in their current positions until replaced,&#8221; Gates said in a Friday e-mail, the Times reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know the Code Pink House is shaking off it&#8217;s foundation this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Gates has apparently asked many Bush Administration appointees to remain at the Defense Department; &hellip; <a title=\"Can you hear heads exploding? [Jonn]\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6439\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can you hear heads exploding? [Jonn]<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}