{"id":207069,"date":"2025-11-21T21:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/at-dick-cheneys-funeral-talk-of-spontaneous-combustion-unlikely-democratic-reverence-and-no-mention-of-iraq\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:31:59","slug":"at-dick-cheneys-funeral-talk-of-spontaneous-combustion-unlikely-democratic-reverence-and-no-mention-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/at-dick-cheneys-funeral-talk-of-spontaneous-combustion-unlikely-democratic-reverence-and-no-mention-of-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"At Dick Cheney\u2019s Funeral, Talk of \u201cSpontaneous Combustion,\u201d Unlikely Democratic Reverence, and No Mention of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Dick Cheney was possibly the most disliked vice president of all. He was the co-architect of the Iraq war and an unabashed defender of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques after the attacks of 9\/11. Cheney, along with his partner Bush, helped pave the way for the populist revolution of Trump and his MAGA movement. Yet at the time Cheney wore his dismal approval rating like a badge of honor and relished being caricatured as Darth Vader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">But there was another Cheney\u2014a kinder, gentler one, recalled in eulogies by his cardiologist Dr. <strong>Jonathan Reiner<\/strong> and notably by George W. Bush. In remarks that never mentioned 9\/11, Iraq, or the 2008 financial meltdown, Bush praised Cheney\u2019s judgment, reticence, loyalty, and humor. In a touching tribute, Cheney\u2019s granddaughter <strong>Grace Perry<\/strong> spoke movingly of how much Grandpa loved driving her to rodeos across Wyoming in his pickup truck (without using GPS).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/dick-cheneys-funeral-talk-of-spontaneous-combustion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Cheney was possibly the most disliked vice president of all. He was the co-architect of the Iraq war and an unabashed defender of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques after the attacks of 9\/11. Cheney, along with his partner Bush, helped pave the way for the populist revolution of Trump and his MAGA movement. Yet at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-207069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}