{"id":58316,"date":"2025-04-12T19:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T19:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58316"},"modified":"2025-04-12T19:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T19:57:13","slug":"rfk-is-spinning-in-his-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58316","title":{"rendered":"RFK is spinning in his grave"},"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>Robert Francis Kennedy ran for president of the United States seeking to heal a nation torn apart by divisions over the Vietnam War and over continuing tension among Americans divided by race.<\/p>\n<p>An assassin ended RFK&#8217;s bid to heal a nation. They buried the U.S. senator and former attorney general, where he has rested since June 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes his son, RFK Jr., serving as health and human services secretary in an administration led by the most divisive, boorish narcissist imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>I long have wondered what Daddy Kennedy must think about the turn his son has taken.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Kennedy would turn 100 years old later this year. I believe that were he able he would rise from his grave and throttle his son.<\/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>Robert Francis Kennedy ran for president of the United States seeking to heal a nation torn apart by divisions over the Vietnam War and over continuing tension among Americans divided by race. An assassin ended RFK&#8217;s bid to heal a nation. They buried the U.S. senator and former attorney general, where he has rested since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58316\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RFK is spinning in his grave<\/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":[13],"tags":[3930,9856,5116],"class_list":["post-58316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-rfk","tag-rfk-jr","tag-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58316","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=58316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58317,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58316\/revisions\/58317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}