{"id":24548,"date":"2020-09-18T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T00:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24548"},"modified":"2020-10-01T07:53:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:53:11","slug":"24548","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/18\/24548\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1761,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.npr.org\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/18\\\/100306972\\\/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260228161902\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.npr.org\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/18\\\/100306972\\\/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 08:55:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 18:30:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 10:37:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 10:37:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/09\/18\/100306972\/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87\">Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 <\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: \u201cMy most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m generally an optimistic sort. But my god, is 2020 making it hard to hold on to that when it keeps proving the pessimists right.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, we need Democrats to act like Republicans \u2014 by which I mean they need to do absolutely everything in their power, use every trick in the book, to invoke the Merrick Garland precedent and honor Ginsburg\u2019s dying wish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 : Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: \u201cMy most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.\u201d I\u2019m generally an optimistic sort. But my god, is 2020 making it &#8230; <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/18\/24548\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}