{"id":14451,"date":"2014-12-16T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T02:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14451"},"modified":"2014-12-16T19:28:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T02:28:12","slug":"2016-all-set-in-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/12\/16\/2016-all-set-in-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"2016: all set in stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/millman\/the-worst-general-election-ever\/\">More depressing than 1988?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>So sharpen your straight razors, people. The 2016 primaries on the Democratic side will feature Hillary Clinton ignoring a handful of protest candidates who never get any traction. And on the Republican side they will feature Jeb Bush coopting his most formidable opponents on his way to defeating a Rand Paul insurgency that more closely resembles Eugene McCarthy in \u00e2\u20ac\u212268 than Ronald Reagan in \u00e2\u20ac\u212276. And the general election will be the most-depressing of our lifetimes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/272359\/bush-vs-clinton-in-2016-is-the-perfect-way-to-make-millennials-hate-politics-even-more\">But what of this Youth Movement heralded in by Obama<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More depressing than 1988? So sharpen your straight razors, people. The 2016 primaries on the Democratic side will feature Hillary Clinton ignoring a handful of protest candidates who never get any traction. And on the Republican side they will feature Jeb Bush coopting his most formidable opponents on his way to defeating a Rand Paul [&hellip;]<\/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-14451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451","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=14451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14452,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions\/14452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}