{"id":18423,"date":"2019-08-05T19:12:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T02:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=18423"},"modified":"2019-08-05T19:12:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T02:12:35","slug":"birtherism-rears-its-ugly-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2019\/08\/05\/birtherism-rears-its-ugly-head\/","title":{"rendered":"birtherism rears its ugly head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times runs a profile of Tulsi Gabbard, and I&#8217;m having to do a bit of a hic-up on this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On the plethora of &#8220;first&#8221;s she would represent as president&#8230; The first woman,<\/p>\n<p><em>the first Samoan, the first from Hawaii, the first surfer, the first vegan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The first from Hawaii?\u00c2\u00a0 Is the New York Times going birther on us regarding Obama?<br \/>\n(Too bad we never got that President Kucinich to scratch that vegan itch.)<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Timothy Noah chimes in with a good word on Joseph Biden as battering against the left wing drift of the Democratic field &#8212; somewhere on immigration beggering back to Obama&#8217;s insistence for a kinder gentler deportation policy but indeed a deportation policy &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0 except he&#8217;s too old and said some old things at the last debate, so I guess we&#8217;re stuck on Buttigieg.\u00c2\u00a0 Just&#8230; checking in on the pundit class&#8217;s thinking for y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times runs a profile of Tulsi Gabbard, and I&#8217;m having to do a bit of a hic-up on this one&#8230; On the plethora of &#8220;first&#8221;s she would represent as president&#8230; The first woman, the first Samoan, the first from Hawaii, the first surfer, the first vegan. The first from Hawaii?\u00c2\u00a0 Is the [&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-18423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423","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=18423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18424,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423\/revisions\/18424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}