{"id":501,"date":"2004-06-12T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2004-06-12T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=501"},"modified":"2004-06-12T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2004-06-12T14:32:08","slug":"windfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"Windfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got a nice letter from Wells Fargo, my former mortgage holder, saying that they had sent me a refund check in February for a goodly amount and why hadn’t I cashed it yet? This was news to me. I can’t figure out why they would owe me a refund. But who am I to turn down their money? So I filled out the form asking them to reissue the check. I can always use a little extra scratch to pay down my credit card and maybe put a little towards some new toys.
\nI know you will find this news as shocking as I did: Karl Rove and his subordinates in the Bush campaign tried to incorporate Reagan’s legacy into a new series of campaign ads<\/a>. These ads did not go over too well with the Reagan-Is-God crowd and now the campaign is being urged to destroy the ads before the public sees them. You have to wonder how desperate things are in the Bush campaign when they resort to co-opting the legacy of a dead president before said president’s body is even in the ground. The very idea of comparing this Bush to Reagan is absurd and I don’t think even the most ardent conservative would disagree with me.
\nBut if you do, you can comment to your heart’s content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a nice letter from Wells Fargo, my former mortgage holder, saying that they had sent me a refund check in February for a goodly amount and why hadn’t I cashed it yet? This was news to me. I can’t figure out why they would owe me a refund. But who am I to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-windfall","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}