{"id":179347,"date":"2026-02-13T14:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=179347"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:31:45","slug":"weekend-open-thread-586","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=179347","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maxine-Waters-that-look-you-give-when-it-is-time-to-retire.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-179348\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maxine-Waters-that-look-you-give-when-it-is-time-to-retire.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maxine-Waters-that-look-you-give-when-it-is-time-to-retire.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maxine-Waters-that-look-you-give-when-it-is-time-to-retire.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maxine-Waters-that-look-you-give-when-it-is-time-to-retire.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maxine-Waters-that-look-you-give-when-it-is-time-to-retire.jpg?w=888&amp;ssl=1 888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There comes a time when one should simply &#8220;hang up one&#8217;s spurs.&#8221; Many of the folks who would warn us about people who &#8220;want to be dictators&#8221; themselves are clinging onto power. Perhaps it&#8217;s possible that by remaining in power, they could continue to keep their corruption hidden or protected. As private citizens, they would not be as powerful as they would need to be to prevent themselves from being held accountable for their acts. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a time when one should simply &#8220;hang up one&#8217;s spurs.&#8221; Many of the folks who would warn us about people who &#8220;want to be dictators&#8221; themselves are clinging onto power. Perhaps it&#8217;s possible that by remaining in power, they could continue to keep their corruption hidden or protected. As private citizens, they would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-KEH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}