{"id":23508,"date":"2017-01-12T10:08:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T16:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=23508"},"modified":"2017-01-12T10:08:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T16:08:30","slug":"what-does-rex-tillerson-get-out-of-being-secretary-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/12\/what-does-rex-tillerson-get-out-of-being-secretary-of-state\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Rex Tillerson Get Out Of Being Secretary Of State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s trying, in the hearings, to not let it look this way, but the truth is that he and Exxon Mobile stand to benefit a great deal from a Tillerson SOC.  Also, Russia will benefit a great deal.<\/p>\n<p>Putting it a slightly different way, Tillerson&#8217;s appointment makes the most sense of you replace &#8220;Trump&#8221; with &#8220;Putin&#8221; in sentences that refer to who the leader of the United States is.<\/p>\n<p>The composite graphic above explains this. The context for those graphics is here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_aexxon_170111' height='500' width='635' scrolling='no' border='no' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s trying, in the hearings, to not let it look this way, but the truth is that he and Exxon Mobile stand to benefit a great deal from a Tillerson SOC. Also, Russia will benefit a great deal. Putting it a slightly different way, Tillerson&#8217;s appointment makes the most sense of you replace &#8220;Trump&#8221; with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/12\/what-does-rex-tillerson-get-out-of-being-secretary-of-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Does Rex Tillerson Get Out Of Being Secretary Of State?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1369,1482,1483,1138,1366,1367,1484,964],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-67a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}