{"id":2731,"date":"2007-12-24T19:46:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T02:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/12\/24\/2007-in-review-itemizing-a-few-items\/"},"modified":"2007-12-24T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T02:49:22","slug":"2007-in-review-itemizing-a-few-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/12\/24\/2007-in-review-itemizing-a-few-items\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 in Review, itemizing a few items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew who Larry Craig was in the year 2006.\u00c2\u00a0 I also knew, or at least believed I knew from\u00c2\u00a0one of the\u00c2\u00a0authentic sounding Internet rumor-mongering, that\u00c2\u00a0he was a closeted homosexual.\u00c2\u00a0 What I associated him with in 2006, however, was an attack on parts of the Patriot Act he gave on Rush Limbaugh where he gave the &#8220;Imagine if Hillary had these powers&#8221; line, along with a &#8220;And I remember Ruby Ridge&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 I did not know about his wide stance.<\/p>\n<p>I did not know that Britney Spears had a younger sister.\u00c2\u00a0 I kind of resent the fact that I now know she does, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/gossip\/hum\/detail\/index.jsp?uuid=d1a5812f-0bb5-4400-afc9-74699bb48ba6\">never mind that this is pretty funny<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it was an eventful year.\u00c2\u00a0 After a while I close my eyes and ask, though, &#8220;In the year 3027&#8230; what\u00c2\u00a0event the year 2007 will be worth noting?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The above two items won&#8217;t be the answer.\u00c2\u00a0 Time Magazine&#8217;s choice of Putin for &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; is as good a bet of people that will be remembered in 3027 as anyone.\u00c2\u00a0 Better than last year&#8217;s choice&#8230; I, the winner of that title,\u00c2\u00a0will not be remembered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew who Larry Craig was in the year 2006.\u00c2\u00a0 I also knew, or at least believed I knew from\u00c2\u00a0one of the\u00c2\u00a0authentic sounding Internet rumor-mongering, that\u00c2\u00a0he was a closeted homosexual.\u00c2\u00a0 What I associated him with in 2006, however, was an attack on parts of the Patriot Act he gave on Rush Limbaugh where he gave [&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-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731","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=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}