{"id":2735,"date":"2006-12-27T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T14:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2006-12-27T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T14:29:48","slug":"gerald_r_ford_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2735","title":{"rendered":"Gerald R. Ford and Presidential Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalarithmetik.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/gerald-r-ford-and-presidential-approval.html\">Charles Franklin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>President Gerald R. Ford died last night. Today&#8217;s initial stories have stressed his role in restoring the country after Watergate, and have emphasized that he was a decent man. They also dwell on his pardon of President Nixon. I thought it might be worthwhile to review President Ford&#8217;s approval ratings as an alternative way of recalling his presidency. While less easy to judge &#8220;good&#8221; and &#8220;bad&#8221;, the data are also less sentimental about his time in office.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Franklin: President Gerald R. Ford died last night. Today&#8217;s initial stories have stressed his role in restoring the country after Watergate, and have emphasized that he was a decent man. They also dwell on his pardon of President Nixon. I thought it might be worthwhile to review President Ford&#8217;s approval ratings as an alternative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}