{"id":3450,"date":"2009-09-02T21:57:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T02:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2009-09-02T21:57:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T02:57:19","slug":"sorry-about-that-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/sorry-about-that-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry About That, Chief!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3455\" title=\"max\" src=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/max1.jpg\" alt=\"max\" width=\"652\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/max1.jpg 652w, https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/max1-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><br \/>\nOne of the kids gave Evann a DVD of the first two seasons of <em>Get Smart<\/em> for her birthday and we&#8217;ve been enjoying a trip down Media Memory Lane ever since. &#8220;Would you believe?&#8221; and &#8220;Missed it by that much&#8221; will soon be catch phrases in our house, along with &#8220;Sorry about that, Chief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That last line echoed in my head during the oratorical orgy following the death of Ted Kennedy. It was the most glaring omission: an apology. Catholics who refused to join in the travesty of tribute to a sworn enemy had their own faith thrown in their faces. &#8220;Don&#8217;t you believe in forgiveness?&#8221; we were taunted. Of course, we do. And we also believe in asking for forgiveness. And trying to make amends for the harm we&#8217;ve done. Where was the apology of Ted Kennedy for all the harm he did during the course of his long, lurid life? Where was the apology? Did he ever once say, &#8220;Sorry about that&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the kids gave Evann a DVD of the first two seasons of Get Smart for her birthday and we&#8217;ve been enjoying a trip down Media Memory Lane ever since. &#8220;Would you believe?&#8221; and &#8220;Missed it by that much&#8221; will soon be catch phrases in our house, along with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Sorry About That, Chief! - Politickles","description":"One of the kids gave Evann a DVD of the first two seasons of Get Smart for her birthday and we've been enjoying a trip down Media Memory Lane ever since. \"Would"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101,1881,1879,1852,1880,1884,1882,1883,508,1878,1062],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-amends","tag-apology","tag-chappaquiddick","tag-forgiveness","tag-get-smart","tag-hypocrisy","tag-maxwell-smart","tag-social-justice","tag-sorry-about-that-chief","tag-ted-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}