{"id":2974,"date":"2008-06-27T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T20:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/06\/27\/gordon-smith\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T20:56:58","slug":"gordon-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/06\/27\/gordon-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, Gordon Smith &#8212; a Republican politician I&#8217;ve found not terribly annoying even if his actions show he is clearly a politician&#8211; is really starting to annoy me.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The backstory is simply that his\u00c2\u00a0re-election campaign has rolled\u00c2\u00a0from &#8220;These two state Democrats support me&#8230; to (noted by the national media)&#8230; Barack Obama once said something nice about me&#8230; to&#8230; I support my Democratic Senate colleague (Ron Wyden)&#8217;s Health Care Plan&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 But I guess <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/mapesonpolitics\/2008\/06\/is_smith_hurting_one_of_mccain.html\">he&#8217;s annoying everyone these days<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 So there.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to see how a candidate in Gordon Smith&#8217;s position handles these matters, where the state&#8217;s political climate has simply moved past you.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a situation that requires a light touch.\u00c2\u00a0 Smith is just too ham-handed, I am afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, Gordon Smith &#8212; a Republican politician I&#8217;ve found not terribly annoying even if his actions show he is clearly a politician&#8211; is really starting to annoy me.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The backstory is simply that his\u00c2\u00a0re-election campaign has rolled\u00c2\u00a0from &#8220;These two state Democrats support me&#8230; to (noted by the national media)&#8230; Barack Obama once said [&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-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","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=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}