{"id":2754,"date":"2008-08-21T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/08\/21\/mis-used-instant-gratification\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T22:25:00","slug":"mis-used-instant-gratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/08\/21\/mis-used-instant-gratification\/","title":{"rendered":"Mis-used Instant Gratification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a little puzzled why someone would so demand to be the &#8220;first&#8221; to hear who Obama would pick to be his running mate by signing up to get his campaign text-message.\u00c2\u00a0 That is an item of instant gratification that sort of fizzles.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I can wait.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose there might be some sort of instant blogging\u00c2\u00a0commentary that&#8217;s supposed to occur as with&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 hold on a minute&#8230; Cell phone ringing.<\/p>\n<p><em>OMG!\u00c2\u00a0 He picked Sebelius!\u00c2\u00a0 Must be trying to shore up the remaining Clinton detractors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Or&#8230; like that.\u00c2\u00a0 Which, I suppose would beat out my landmark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/07\/06\/edwards\/\">4:34 in the morning revelation that John Kerry picked John Edwards<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Pre-Drudge, as so happened. \u00c2\u00a0I am happy to say\u00c2\u00a0such a feat\u00c2\u00a0is not going to happen this time out.<\/p>\n<p>Though if it is Sebelius I will claim to have had fore-knowledge and use this post as my reference guide to yell &#8220;See?\u00c2\u00a0 See?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a little puzzled why someone would so demand to be the &#8220;first&#8221; to hear who Obama would pick to be his running mate by signing up to get his campaign text-message.\u00c2\u00a0 That is an item of instant gratification that sort of fizzles.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I can wait.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose there might be some [&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-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","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=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}