{"id":855,"date":"2008-06-23T18:16:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T00:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=855"},"modified":"2008-06-23T18:16:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T00:16:42","slug":"political-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"Political Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not the only one who feels that media analysis often reads like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200412\/orourke2\">mad libs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>How badly has Bush poisoned the political well? So badly that people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2008\/06\/why-obama-isnt-like-dukakis.html\">don&#8217;t care<\/a> if Obama is liberal.  They just want something, anything different.<\/li>\n<li>It will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2008\/06\/23\/no-news-is-no-news\/\">couple more days<\/a> before all hell breaks loose.  I hope.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not the only one who feels that media analysis often reads like mad libs. How badly has Bush poisoned the political well? So badly that people don&#8217;t care if Obama is liberal. They just want something, anything different. It will be a couple more days before all hell breaks loose. I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-dN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}