{"id":1489,"date":"2010-01-13T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T23:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:32:59","slug":"reader-hopes-for-the-best-wednesday-january-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/reader-hopes-for-the-best-wednesday-january-13th\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Hopes for the Best &#8211; Wednesday January 13th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sarah-palin-i133121-small-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"sarah-palin-i133121-small\" title=\"sarah-palin-i133121-small\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1493\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sarah-palin-i133121-small-168x300.jpg 168w, http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sarah-palin-i133121-small.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 85vw, 168px\" \/>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Did you ever wonder if the REAL Communist was Joe McCarthy?  I have this book at home called &#8220;What Ifs? Of American History&#8221; and there&#8217;s an essay in it about how maybe all that anti-communist hysteria was drummed up to help the Russians keep the Cold War going.  It got me thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nMaybe Sarah Palin is really a hippie Rhodes Scholar who loves peace and the wilderness? <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nYours,<br \/>\nHoping<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Dear Hoping,<br \/>\nUm, nuh uh.  No, sorry.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe odds of me becoming President of Russia are higher than Sarah Palin loving peace and wilderness.  It&#8217;s more likely that I will explode and set off another big bang that will create a new universse than Palin scoring well on the written drivers test, let alone being a Rhodes Scholar.  I appreciate your optimism though.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSincerely,<br \/>\nPoor Lucky Me <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, &nbsp; Did you ever wonder if the REAL Communist was Joe McCarthy? I have this book at home called &#8220;What Ifs? Of American History&#8221; and there&#8217;s an essay in it about how maybe all that anti-communist hysteria was drummed up to help the Russians keep the Cold War going. It got &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/reader-hopes-for-the-best-wednesday-january-13th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reader Hopes for the Best &#8211; Wednesday January 13th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}