{"id":618,"date":"2006-09-28T20:34:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T01:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=618"},"modified":"2006-10-02T09:13:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T14:13:09","slug":"going-down-next-floor-basement-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2006\/09\/28\/going-down-next-floor-basement-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Going down, next floor Basement Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/archives\/000432.html\">said four years ago<\/a> that I thought America&#8217;s empire may have reached its zenith and it might be all downhill from there.  The decline has only become steeper, and as I predicted at the time, the pressure has come from within.<\/p>\n<p>Let us all hope that America has reached its <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=nadir&#038;db=*\">nadir<\/a> when we hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/09\/28\/washington\/29detaincnd.html?_r=2&#038;hp&#038;ex=1159502400&#038;en=f804341525b03650&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">today&#8217;s news<\/a> that among other things <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habeas_corpus\">Habeas Corpus<\/a> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views06\/0928-20.htm\">thing of the past<\/a> for permanent US residents and torture has been redefined to the extent that it is legal if the President says so.<\/p>\n<p>If there is futher to go down this abyss, it&#8217;s going to get darker before it gets lighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said four years ago that I thought America&#8217;s empire may have reached its zenith and it might be all downhill from there. The decline has only become steeper, and as I predicted at the time, the pressure has come from within. Let us all hope that America has reached its nadir when we hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}