{"id":16082,"date":"2014-11-14T21:47:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16082"},"modified":"2014-11-14T21:47:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:47:29","slug":"two-possible-familial-scenarios-for-the-white-house-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16082","title":{"rendered":"Two possible familial scenarios for the White House in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton looks very likely to be the Democratic candidate in the US Presidential election of 2016. If she runs and wins (and I hope she does on both counts), then the recent occupancy of the White House will look like this: Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>There is serious discussion about the possibility of Jeb Bush seeking the Republican candidacy for the next American Presidential election [see article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2014\/nov\/13\/bush-dynasty-jeb-us-presidential-elections-george-white-house\">here<\/a>]. If he runs and wins,\u00a0then the recent occupancy of the White House will look like this:\u00a0Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Bush.<\/p>\n<p>If either possible scenario comes to pass, then\u00a0just two families would divide the White House between them for a combined total of at least 24 out of 32 years and a possible 28 out of 36 years. This is the country which declared its independence from Britain partly because it did not want to be ruled by an aristocracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton looks very likely to be the Democratic candidate in the US Presidential election of 2016. If she runs and wins (and I hope she does on both counts), then the recent occupancy of the White House will look like this: Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Clinton. There is serious discussion about the possibility of Jeb Bush seeking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16082"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16088,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions\/16088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}