{"id":2680,"date":"2007-07-23T07:15:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2007-07-23T07:28:25","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T13:28:25","slug":"cheney-takes-command-of-the-oval-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/cheney-takes-command-of-the-oval-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney takes command of the Oval Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/01\/Dick_Cheney.jpg\/200px-Dick_Cheney.jpg\"><br \/>\nYou may not have known this &#8211; I didn&#8217;t &#8211; but <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vice_president_of_the_United_States#Succession_and_the_25th_Amendment\">VPOTUS<\/a> <strong>Dick Cheney<\/strong> took over the powers of the US Presidency over the weekend for 2 1\/2 hours.<br \/>\nLuckily no one was bombed while President <strong>George W. Bush<\/strong> was under sedation for a routine medical procedure (colonoscopy I think).<br \/>\nCheney spent his time as POTUS in the small bayside town of St. Michaels, Md.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=12149858\">NPR has a great story<\/a> on the changing of guard early Saturday morning.<br \/>\nThis is the second time Cheney has assumed the role of President. The first was on June 29, 2002.<br \/>\nThe only other VPOTUS to do so was <strong>George H. W. Bush<\/strong> under <strong>Ronald Reagan&#8217;s<\/strong> term as POTUS.<br \/>\nBush Sr. took the reigns from Reagan on July 13, 1985 when President Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove polyps from his colon.<br \/>\nOh and don&#8217;t forget &#8211; Democratic President <strong>Josiah Bartlett<\/strong> gave up control of the Oval Office to Republican Speaker of the House <strong>Glen Allen Walken<\/strong> during the first few episodes of season five of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_West_Wing\">The West Wing<\/a>. Bartlett relived himself of power to the opposing party after his daughter was kidnapped and his VP had resigned due to an affair had while in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not have known this &#8211; I didn&#8217;t &#8211; but VPOTUS Dick Cheney took over the powers of the US Presidency over the weekend for 2 1\/2 hours. Luckily no one was bombed while President George W. Bush was under sedation for a routine medical procedure (colonoscopy I think). Cheney spent his time as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/cheney-takes-command-of-the-oval-office\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cheney takes command of the Oval Office<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-newsandpop","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-He","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}