{"id":640,"date":"2008-02-07T10:21:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/07\/small-favors\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T10:21:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T15:21:15","slug":"small-favors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/07\/small-favors\/","title":{"rendered":"Small favors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See, old Zell still manages to leave <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.courant.com\/capitol_watch\/2008\/02\/lieberman-no-lo.html\">some good behind him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Having come to a point where neither Obama nor Clinton have made a compelling case for his or her winning my vote over the other, I&#8217;ve found myself taking the larger view from the bleachers.\u00c2\u00a0 And, for the most part, it&#8217;s a really silly game I&#8217;m watching (tho&#8217; the parallels to televangelism are growing).\u00c2\u00a0 It could be a better one, but it won&#8217;t be, so I&#8217;ve decided to just keep my harping to a minimum. \u00c2\u00a0 Thus the rather light political content of late.\u00c2\u00a0 While there are certainly big things at stake, it feels mostly like analyzing a PeeWee league football game &#8211; what&#8217;s the point, really?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See, old Zell still manages to leave some good behind him. ~ Having come to a point where neither Obama nor Clinton have made a compelling case for his or her winning my vote over the other, I&#8217;ve found myself taking the larger view from the bleachers.\u00c2\u00a0 And, for the most part, it&#8217;s a really [&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-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}