{"id":787831,"date":"2018-12-03T20:56:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T03:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/opinion-liddick-george-h-w-bush-was-the-picture-of-a-public-servant\/"},"modified":"2018-12-03T20:56:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T03:56:01","slug":"opinion-liddick-george-h-w-bush-was-the-picture-of-a-public-servant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/opinion-liddick-george-h-w-bush-was-the-picture-of-a-public-servant\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Liddick: George H.W. Bush was the picture of a public servant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/opinion-liddick-george-h-w-bush-was-the-picture-of-a-public-servant\/\">Morgan Liddick<\/a><\/span>  America suffered a loss last Friday. When it was discovered, sadly, some probably cheered; the deceased was not universally admired.<br \/>\nThe loss was of our former President George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States. His death marks the passing of an era, drawing a bright line under the first period of what might be called the world&#8217;s &#8220;American period.&#8221;<br \/>\nOur paths crossed twice: once in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and again years later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/opinion-liddick-george-h-w-bush-was-the-picture-of-a-public-servant\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/opinion-liddick-george-h-w-bush-was-the-picture-of-a-public-servant\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Opinion | Liddick: George H.W. Bush was the picture of a public servant\">Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America suffered a loss last Friday. When it was discovered, sadly, some probably cheered; the deceased was not universally admired.<br \/>\nThe loss was of our former President George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States. His death marks the passing of an era, drawing a bright line under the first period of what might be called the world&#8217;s &#8220;American period.&#8221;<br \/>\nOur paths crossed twice: once in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and again years later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/opinion-liddick-george-h-w-bush-was-the-picture-of-a-public-servant\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-787831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 21:20:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}