{"id":27290,"date":"2025-03-02T18:43:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T23:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27290"},"modified":"2025-03-02T18:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T23:57:58","slug":"the-good-guys-and-the-bad-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27290","title":{"rendered":"The good guys and the bad guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone else noticed how quickly the Whitehouse has declared the U.S. to be one of the bad guys? Europe is scrambling to reorder its priorities, because now it&#8217;s pretty much alone in standing up for decency and in maintaining a moral compass.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s as though our Federal government just flipped that old Google directive on its head, the one that went &#8220;Don&#8217;t be evil&#8221;. It seems as though our government&#8217;s new motto is &#8220;Be evil&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone else noticed how quickly the Whitehouse has declared the U.S. to be one of the bad guys? Europe is scrambling to reorder its priorities, because now it&#8217;s pretty much alone in standing up for decency and in maintaining a moral compass. It&#8217;s as though our Federal government just flipped that old Google directive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The good guys and the bad guys&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27292,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27290\/revisions\/27292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}