{"id":818,"date":"2008-05-12T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=818"},"modified":"2008-05-12T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T16:27:18","slug":"well-at-least-weve-got-some-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/12\/well-at-least-weve-got-some-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, at least &#8220;we&#8221;&#8216;ve got *some* sense . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many reasons you&#8217;ll never see me running as a candidate is that I can&#8217;t really bring myself to laud the Great American Electorate as all that smart. \u00c2\u00a0 I was always wavering on the issue, but 2004 settled it for me pretty well.\u00c2\u00a0 So I&#8217;m easily pleased with little <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/05\/gallup_bush_more_damaging_to_m.php\">bright spots like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McCain&#8217;s association with George W. Bush is <em>more<\/em> damaging than Obama&#8217;s association with Wright.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many reasons you&#8217;ll never see me running as a candidate is that I can&#8217;t really bring myself to laud the Great American Electorate as all that smart. \u00c2\u00a0 I was always wavering on the issue, but 2004 settled it for me pretty well.\u00c2\u00a0 So I&#8217;m easily pleased with little bright spots like [&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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","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=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}