{"id":1825,"date":"2008-07-12T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2008-07-12T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T16:09:09","slug":"the-great-tony-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"The Great Tony Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,381250,00.html\">Tony Snow, commentator<\/a> and former press secretary for the president, died of cancer at 2:00 a.m. this morning at Georgetown University Hospital.  He was 53.  I think if talk radio commentators were stereotyped as being like Tony Snow, few people would have room to complain about them.  He was a great man.<\/p>\n<p>Let me add that I hope to him in heaven.  I believe he was Catholic, and I heartily disagree with the doctrine of the Catholic church, but I&#8217;ve heard Tony talk about life and dealing with cancer a few times and I believe he understood the gospel.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I never feel much when public figures pass away.  I don&#8217;t know them, even if I admire them, so I don&#8217;t feel more than a bit of disappointment, if that.  So why am I crying now?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldontheweb.com\/2008\/07\/12\/tony-snow-dies\/\">More on Tony Snow at World<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Snow, commentator and former press secretary for the president, died of cancer at 2:00 a.m. this morning at Georgetown University Hospital. He was 53. I think if talk radio commentators were stereotyped as being like Tony Snow, few people would have room to complain about them. He was a great man. Let me add &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1825\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Great Tony Snow<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}