{"id":1305,"date":"2006-05-30T21:39:31","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T02:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2006-05-30T21:39:31","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T02:39:31","slug":"the-worst-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/the-worst-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Presidents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At dinner with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books&#038;field-author-exact=William%20E.%20Leuchtenburg&#038;rank=-relevance%2C%2Bavailability%2C-daterank\/104-1263371-8707962\">Bill Leuchtenburg<\/a> and others when someone (me) asked if <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warren_G._Harding\">Harding<\/a> was the worst president so far. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0195176162\/\">Bill knows  a thing or two<\/a>  about presidents having spent most of his life writing about them. His tentative worst presidents: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franklin_Pierce\">Pierce<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Buchanan\">Buchanan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ulysses_S._Grant\">Grant<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Nixon\">Nixon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At dinner with Bill Leuchtenburg and others when someone (me) asked if Harding was the worst president so far. Now Bill knows a thing or two about presidents having spent most of his life writing about them. His tentative worst presidents: Pierce, Buchanan, Grant and Nixon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}