{"id":4209,"date":"2008-02-28T08:53:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T15:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/nation-in-mourning-as-belligerent-billionaire-bows-out-of-race\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T08:54:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T15:54:12","slug":"nation-in-mourning-as-belligerent-billionaire-bows-out-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/nation-in-mourning-as-belligerent-billionaire-bows-out-of-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Nation in Mourning as Belligerent Billionaire Bows Out of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Various sources are reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7269151.stm\">New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will not make an independent bid for president<\/a>. I, for one, was hoping to witness another blandly &#8220;transpartisan,&#8221; authoritarian warbot crash and burn \u00c3\u00a0 la Rudy Giuliani, but alas. Of course, there&#8217;s always John McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>In December, Glenn Greenwald collected some of Mikey&#8217;s greatest hits, with an emphasis on foreign policy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2007\/12\/31\/bloomberg\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various sources are reporting that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will not make an independent bid for president. I, for one, was hoping to witness another blandly &#8220;transpartisan,&#8221; authoritarian warbot crash and burn \u00c3\u00a0 la Rudy Giuliani, but alas. Of course, there&#8217;s always John McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 In December, Glenn Greenwald collected some of Mikey&#8217;s greatest hits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-bloomberg","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}