{"id":1322,"date":"2008-09-26T19:18:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T23:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2008-09-26T19:18:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T23:18:31","slug":"watching-the-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/26\/watching-the-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vivian Paige is graciously<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vivianpaige.com\/2008\/09\/26\/debate-watching-party\/\"> hosting a live debate watch thread tonight<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 As I write that, it occurs to me that I&#8217;ll not only have to face this debate without too many drinks (up early in the AM), but I&#8217;m going to have to clean up my language if I want any of my posts to show up over there.\u00c2\u00a0 Fuck.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well.\u00c2\u00a0 Head on over around 9pm so we can all commiserate on the state of the American political conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivian Paige is graciously hosting a live debate watch thread tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 As I write that, it occurs to me that I&#8217;ll not only have to face this debate without too many drinks (up early in the AM), but I&#8217;m going to have to clean up my language if I want any of my posts to [&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,"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-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vivian Paige is graciously hosting a live debate watch thread tonight.\u00c2 As I write that, it occurs to me that I&#039;ll not only have to face this debate without too many drinks (up early in the AM), but I&#039;m going to have to clean up my language if I want any of my posts to\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MB\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"politics\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/26\/watching-the-debate\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.1\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blacknell.net | Politics, open government, and safe streets.  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