{"id":70577,"date":"2019-12-10T07:19:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=70577"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:19:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:19:21","slug":"when-an-administration-changes-over-on-january-20th-each-agency-then-gets-their-allocated-number-of-political-appointees-at-va-we-had-about-30-political-appointees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=70577","title":{"rendered":"\u201cwhen an administration changes over on January 20th, each agency then gets their allocated number of political appointees. At VA, we had about 30 political appointees\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/magazine\/former-va-secretary-david-shulkin-serving-your-country-shouldnt-be-this-hard\/2019\/12\/09\/1c417922-ff12-11e9-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html\">Link<\/a>. It\u2019s a way of rewarding loyalists. It\u2019s also a really stupid way to run a vast enterprise. Also significantly corrupt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link. It\u2019s a way of rewarding loyalists. It\u2019s also a really stupid way to run a vast enterprise. Also significantly corrupt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-70577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-pinboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70578,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70577\/revisions\/70578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}