{"id":553,"date":"2008-10-06T20:01:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T01:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/10\/06\/make-believe-maverick-rolling-stone\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T20:01:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T01:01:20","slug":"make-believe-maverick-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/06\/make-believe-maverick-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Make-Believe Maverick : Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is powerful writing.\u00a0 On the real John McCain from Rolling Stone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/news\/story\/23316912\/makebelieve_maverick\/print\">here<\/a> ht to Doc Searls <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/doc\/2008\/10\/06\/roast-maverick\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>There&#8217;s a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam \u2014 call it an honor gap.<\/strong> Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a &#8220;confession&#8221; to his North Vietnamese captors. Dramesi, in contrast, attempted two daring escapes. For the second he was brutalized for a month with daily torture sessions that nearly killed him. His partner in the escape, Lt. Col. Ed Atterberry, didn&#8217;t survive the mistreatment. But Dramesi never said a disloyal word, and for his heroism was awarded two Air Force Crosses, one of the service&#8217;s highest distinctions. McCain would later hail him as &#8220;one of the toughest guys I&#8217;ve ever met.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/news\/story\/23316912\/makebelieve_maverick\/print\">Make-Believe Maverick : Rolling Stone<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is powerful writing.\u00a0 On the real John McCain from Rolling Stone here ht to Doc Searls here. There&#8217;s a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam \u2014 call it an honor gap. Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a &#8220;confession&#8221; to his North &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/06\/make-believe-maverick-rolling-stone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make-Believe Maverick : Rolling Stone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}