{"id":1255,"date":"2008-09-10T14:31:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T18:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2008-09-10T14:31:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T18:31:38","slug":"realizing-mccains-dishonorable-dishonesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/10\/realizing-mccains-dishonorable-dishonesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Realizing McCain&#8217;s Dishonorable Dishonesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add Andrew Sullivan to the ranks of <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/09\/mccains-integri.html\">those who finally get it<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Better now than after the election, I suppose.\u00c2\u00a0 It still amazes me how strongly so many observers (of all political persuasions) hold onto the lie that John McCain is in any way a decent man.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a plausible argument eight years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 But now?\u00c2\u00a0 Impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Andrew Sullivan to the ranks of those who finally get it.\u00c2\u00a0 Better now than after the election, I suppose.\u00c2\u00a0 It still amazes me how strongly so many observers (of all political persuasions) hold onto the lie that John McCain is in any way a decent man.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a plausible argument eight years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}