{"id":14192,"date":"2014-07-24T17:37:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14192"},"modified":"2014-07-24T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T00:37:08","slug":"hope-redux-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/07\/24\/hope-redux-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"hope, redux redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing to do with the politics or policies in this headline… but… this is getting to me.<\/p>\n

The misuse of the word “Hope”.<\/p>\n

Promises of Hope Tarnished by Lack of Change<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I first noticed this with John Edwards, who offered in 2004 that “Hope is on the Way!”\u00c2\u00a0 Impossible.\u00c2\u00a0 As it is an implied future for the present.<\/p>\n

There is no promise of “hope”… there is “Hope”, perhaps, which itself is “promise” of the future.<\/p>\n

Then again I didn’t much like Obama’s 2008 campaign, which garners some admission from someone I know recently “He was just better than the other guy”.\u00c2\u00a0 Indeed.\u00c2\u00a0 So I thought at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing to do with the politics or policies in this headline… but… this is getting to me. The misuse of the word “Hope”. Promises of Hope Tarnished by Lack of Change. I first noticed this with John Edwards, who offered in 2004 that “Hope is on the Way!”\u00c2\u00a0 Impossible.\u00c2\u00a0 As it is an implied future […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14193,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions\/14193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}