{"id":2667,"date":"2007-11-06T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T07:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/11\/06\/yes-i-get-comments-sometimes\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T00:01:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T07:01:45","slug":"yes-i-get-comments-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/11\/06\/yes-i-get-comments-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I get comments.  Sometimes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A gay person who lives in a Idaho (or other conservative thinking states) would have to appear straight to be elected. Once elected the person he has to vote for his constituents preference. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being a hypocrite, rather its being a pragmatist which all politicians are. The best commentary I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen is located at (you may have to copy this address and paste it into your browser.) <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sfbay.craigslist.org\/doc\/clt\/459032955.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/sfbay.craigslist.org\/doc\/clt\/459032955.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Well worth the effort.  The publicized reality right now is in Idaho though.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The comment is an example of not addressing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/31\/thought-of-the-day-2\/\">the post<\/a> but instead addressing posts that reference the topic of what the commenter wants to parlay his message regarding, in this case Larry Craig &#8212; and the claims of &#8220;hypocrisy&#8221; &#8212; something I did not say there, and for all I know never expressly said.<\/p>\n<p>The comment is a sad one, though it does parallel my sentence about &#8220;only electable in a handful of zip codes&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0 Saying what? Regarding Larry Craig, though, his situation gets even worse: he is not gay &#8212; so he says &#8212; and does not believe himself to be gay, and there is a part of himself that believes he never trafficed bathroom stalls like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gay person who lives in a Idaho (or other conservative thinking states) would have to appear straight to be elected. Once elected the person he has to vote for his constituents preference. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being a hypocrite, rather its being a pragmatist which all politicians are. The best commentary I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen is [&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-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","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=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}