{"id":32537,"date":"2021-04-22T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=32537"},"modified":"2021-04-22T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:39:00","slug":"harry-s-truman-you-cant-get-rich-in-politics-unless-youre-a-crook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=32537","title":{"rendered":"Harry S. Truman \u2018You Can\u2019t Get Rich in Politics Unless You\u2019re a Crook\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32538\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Harry_S_Truman_Alleged_Quote-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"Harry S Truman Alleged Quote\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Harry_S_Truman_Alleged_Quote-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Harry_S_Truman_Alleged_Quote.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A number of memes and blogs claimed United States President Harry S. Truman said \u201cyou can\u2019t get rich in politics unless you\u2019re a crook.\u201d That quote appeared to be \u2014 at best \u2014 a paraphrase of a 1954 diary entry, in which Truman wrote that an \u201chonest public servant can\u2019t become rich in politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"sRBWJ7Bbwy\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthorfiction.com\/harry-s-truman-you-cant-get-rich-in-politics-unless-youre-a-crook-meme\/\">Harry S. Truman &#8216;You Can&#8217;t Get Rich in Politics Unless You&#8217;re a Crook&#8217; Meme<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Harry S. Truman &#8216;You Can&#8217;t Get Rich in Politics Unless You&#8217;re a Crook&#8217; Meme&#8221; &#8212; Truth or Fiction?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.truthorfiction.com\/harry-s-truman-you-cant-get-rich-in-politics-unless-youre-a-crook-meme\/embed\/#?secret=nsLKKZjBJf#?secret=sRBWJ7Bbwy\" data-secret=\"sRBWJ7Bbwy\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of memes and blogs claimed United States President Harry S. Truman said \u201cyou can\u2019t get rich in politics unless you\u2019re a crook.\u201d That quote appeared to be \u2014 at best \u2014 a paraphrase of a 1954 diary entry, in which Truman wrote that an \u201chonest public servant can\u2019t become rich in politics.\u201d Harry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=32537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harry S. Truman \u2018You Can\u2019t Get Rich in Politics Unless You\u2019re a Crook\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32539,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32537\/revisions\/32539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}