{"id":1827,"date":"2011-07-10T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T21:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2011-07-10T16:27:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T21:27:06","slug":"difficult-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/difficult-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"Difficult Persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love difficult people who fight insanely for the good. I recently wrote about Elizabeth Warren, apparently a very difficult regulatory official in Washington. I&#8217;ve also long admired Sheila Bair, FDIC head honcho, because, as Joe Nocera (my favorite finance writer) just wrote in today&#8217;s NYT Magazine,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a title=\"NYT: &quot;Sheila Bair\u2019s Bank Shot,&quot; By JOE NOCERA \" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/10\/magazine\/sheila-bairs-exit-interview.html?pagewanted=1\">It was now official: Sheila Bair was difficult.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excellent article about a heroic woman. Shows just how much sycophancy there is amongst our &#8220;betters.&#8221; You know, the ones who brought on our latest economic catastrophe&#8230;.Time to start throwing the bums out. All of them.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we need more &#8220;difficult&#8221; people in this world&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Difficult people rock. And roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,344,1],"tags":[1017],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thanks","category-uncategorized","tag-sheila-bair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}