{"id":2741,"date":"2008-01-05T17:43:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T00:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/01\/05\/cadre-baby-boomers\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T17:43:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T00:43:29","slug":"cadre-baby-boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/01\/05\/cadre-baby-boomers\/","title":{"rendered":"cadre?  baby boomers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should probably apologize to Michael Wade right off the bat.\u00c2\u00a0 This may be obnoxiously innocuous.\u00c2\u00a0 But the terminology sticks out as one giant red flag.\u00c2\u00a0 Understand, though, that out of the thousands of people who picked through and read today&#8217;s Letters to the Oregonian, you can count the number of people who flashed where I did on one hand.<\/p>\n<p><em>I<\/em><em>owa was won by the young.\u00c2\u00a0 At last, <strong>a new cadre<\/strong> of voters to break the Beltway Myopia.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope Iowa wasn&#8217;t a fluke.\u00c2\u00a0 <strong>Goodbye, baby boomers<\/strong>!\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hm.<\/p>\n<p>Cadre:\u00c2\u00a0 a group of trained or otherwise qualified personnel capable of forming, training, or leading an expanded organization, as a religious or political faction or a skilled work force; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; a cell of trained and devoted workers.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you say so.\u00c2\u00a0 How many cadres of anti-baby boomers are there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should probably apologize to Michael Wade right off the bat.\u00c2\u00a0 This may be obnoxiously innocuous.\u00c2\u00a0 But the terminology sticks out as one giant red flag.\u00c2\u00a0 Understand, though, that out of the thousands of people who picked through and read today&#8217;s Letters to the Oregonian, you can count the number of people who flashed where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-larouche-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","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=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}