{"id":659,"date":"2008-02-19T18:39:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T23:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/19\/john-mccains-fraud\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T18:39:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T23:39:57","slug":"john-mccains-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/19\/john-mccains-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"John McCain&#8217;s Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain, in order to secure a bank loan, promised the bank that &#8211; even if he was failing in the primaries &#8211; he&#8217;s stay in it long enough to collect enough public financing to pay the private loan back.\u00c2\u00a0 Mark Schmitt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=02&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=the_pete_rose_of_politics&amp;20\">explains it<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (Via TPM)<\/p>\n<p>Strikes me kind of like that welfare fraud the GOP used to go on about . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain, in order to secure a bank loan, promised the bank that &#8211; even if he was failing in the primaries &#8211; he&#8217;s stay in it long enough to collect enough public financing to pay the private loan back.\u00c2\u00a0 Mark Schmitt explains it.\u00c2\u00a0 (Via TPM) Strikes me kind of like that welfare fraud the [&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-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}