{"id":1201,"date":"2021-07-03T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T13:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:14:38","slug":"donald-rumsfeld-tries-to-enter-into-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"Donald Rumsfeld Tries to Enter Into Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(as retold later by the Devil)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 into the known<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or maybe it\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;an unknown&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Donald comes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to the Gates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;unrepentant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A large book<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;swings open<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hard to see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but it seems<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;they hold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>long lists of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;names&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>inscribed in&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;smoke.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s not&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;allowed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to speak, nor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;to write<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>memos and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;counter-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>memos.&nbsp;&nbsp;After<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a pause<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>comes word of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;his new<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>deployment\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(as retold later by the Devil) \u2026 into the known &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;unknown or maybe it\u2019s &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;an unknown&nbsp; unknown &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Donald comes to the Gates &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;unrepentant. A large book &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;swings open hard to see &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the pages but it seems &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;they hold long lists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}