{"id":29962,"date":"2018-05-25T19:25:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T19:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29962"},"modified":"2018-05-25T19:25:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T19:25:55","slug":"putin-to-abide-by-the-law-imagine-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29962","title":{"rendered":"Putin to abide by the law? Imagine that!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Vladimir Putin, the man so admired by Donald John Trump Sr., says he&#8217;s going to step down as Russian president by 2024 &#8212; in accordance with the Russian constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Well, shut my mouth and send me to Siberia!<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of American politicians who boast from campaign lecturns about how they are faithful to their wives. So many of them, though, turn out to be quite unfaithful.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to wait for Vladimir Putin to actually deliver on his pledge to, um, obey the laws of his land. \u201cIn the constitution it\u2019s clearly written that nobody can serve more than two terms in a row. &#8230; I intend to abide by this rule,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s big of him, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin, the man so admired by Donald John Trump Sr., says he&#8217;s going to step down as Russian president by 2024 &#8212; in accordance with the Russian constitution. Well, shut my mouth and send me to Siberia! It reminds me of American politicians who boast from campaign lecturns about how they are faithful to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29962\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Putin to abide by the law? Imagine that!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,5125],"class_list":["post-29962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29963,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29962\/revisions\/29963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}