{"id":3270,"date":"2011-01-05T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:05:08","slug":"at-rnc-debate-michael-steele-says-his-favorite-book-is-war-and-peace-and-then-quotes-the-opening-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3270","title":{"rendered":"At RNC debate, Michael Steele says his favorite book is War and Peace&#8221; and then quotes the opening line: &#8220;It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.&#8221; Ooops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haha. The opening line from <strong>A Tale of Two Cities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2011\/01\/03\/rnc-debate-stirs-talk-of-pistols-tolstoy-err-dickens\/?mod=rss_WSJBlog&amp;mod=WSJ_Politics_Blog\" target=\"_self\">After which Mr. Steele said, \u201cWar and Peace.\u201d He then dashed off the opening line from, well, a different book: \u201cIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haha. The opening line from A Tale of Two Cities. After which Mr. Steele said, \u201cWar and Peace.\u201d He then dashed off the opening line from, well, a different book: \u201cIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5616,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions\/5616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}