{"id":28188,"date":"2013-09-28T03:52:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T03:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=28188"},"modified":"2013-09-28T03:55:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T03:55:19","slug":"doublequoting-retweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=28188","title":{"rendered":"DoubleQuoting ReTweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; of tweets, and telephones, and terminal points with teletype equipment ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-Double-Retweet1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-Double-Retweet1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Double Retweet\" width=\"606\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-Double-Retweet1.png 606w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-Double-Retweet1-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The White House RTs Rouhani, Rouhani RTs State.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a &#8220;sign of the times&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Was any bookmaker offering odds on this happening?<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Would I have been excited enough to want to write it up if I&#8217;d just found out, fifty years ago, that the White House had a &#8220;red telephone&#8221; that connected directly to the Kremlin?<\/p>\n<p>I doubt it &#8212; but this article from the <em>Smithsonian<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/There-Never-Was-Such-a-Thing-as-a-Red-Phone-in-the-White-House-212156891.html\">There Never Was Such a Thing as a Red Phone in the White House<\/a> informs us that it wasn&#8217;t a question of telephones either &#8212; it was&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>two terminal points with teletype equipment, a full-time duplex wire telegraph circuit and a full-time radiotelegraph circuit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now &#8212; why am I feeling just a tad saddened by that tidbit of lifelong learning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; of tweets, and telephones, and terminal points with teletype equipment ] . The White House RTs Rouhani, Rouhani RTs State. Is this a &#8220;sign of the times&#8221;? Was any bookmaker offering odds on this happening? ** Would I have been excited enough to want to write it up if I&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,526,627,93,91,687,393,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-iran","category-russia","category-specs","category-twitter","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28188"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28206,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28188\/revisions\/28206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}