{"id":373,"date":"2009-01-28T18:27:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T00:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-01-28T19:01:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T01:01:15","slug":"change-to-believe-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Change to believe in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0109\/18047.html\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/geithnertt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-387\" title=\"geithnertt\" src=\"http:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/geithnertt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0109\/18047.html\">Politico<\/a> is reporting that newly installed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner issued new rules Tuesday restricting contacts with lobbyists \u2013 and then hired Mark Patterson, who was a registered lobbyist for Goldman Sachs from 2005 until April of 2008, to be his top aide.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we are supposed to think that <strong>do as I say not as I do<\/strong> is change to believe in.<a href=\"http:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/big_smiley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-383\" title=\"big_smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/big_smiley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/big_smiley.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/big_smiley-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico is reporting that newly installed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner issued new rules Tuesday restricting contacts with lobbyists \u2013 and then hired Mark Patterson, who was a registered lobbyist for Goldman Sachs from 2005 until April of 2008, to be his top aide. I guess we are supposed to think that do as I say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagantech.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}