{"id":14871,"date":"2016-12-09T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14871"},"modified":"2016-12-09T07:31:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:31:59","slug":"presidents-have-a-hard-time-firing-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/presidents-have-a-hard-time-firing-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidents Have A Hard Time Firing People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/120916_1226_PresidentsH1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s signature catch-phrase on The Apprentice was &#8220;you&#8217;re fired&#8221;. In a 2013 article about the Obama administration, Scott Wilson wrote about why Presidents typically have a hard time firing people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firing someone implies that the President made a mistake in appointing them, and this can be shaky ground politically.<\/li>\n<li>Presidential appointees are typically extremely loyal to the President, and the personal relationship that builds can make firing difficult.<\/li>\n<li>There is a middle ground. After the furor dies down, instead of firing someone, the President can merely present them with a cushy ambassadorship in a friendly country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/for-presidents-link-between-the-power-to-fire-and-their-inclination-to-do-so-can-be-tenuous\/2013\/10\/24\/9319a992-3cb4-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html?utm_term=.a2ce654b70ca\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s signature catch-phrase on The Apprentice was &#8220;you&#8217;re fired&#8221;. In a 2013 article about the Obama administration, Scott Wilson wrote about why Presidents typically have a hard time firing people: Firing someone implies that the President made a mistake in appointing them, and this can be shaky ground politically. Presidential appointees are typically extremely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/120916_1226_PresidentsH1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14875,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions\/14875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}