{"id":3942,"date":"2009-05-09T17:01:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2009-05-09T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T00:01:12","slug":"internet-reveals-our-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/05\/09\/internet-reveals-our-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet reveals our Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question:  Which of these NY Times articles, put into their political blog, is more important:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After Flyover of Air Force One Backup, Military Office Director Resigns&#8221;, the resignation of a, frankly reasonably competent man after making a high profile error.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pelosi Criticized Over Interrogation Briefings&#8221;, concerning how much information the then House Minority Whip now Speaker of the House knew, and thus was complicit in, the Bush Torture Program.<\/p>\n<p>Now.  After answering that question, here&#8217;s the next question:  Which story has 122 comments and which story has 311 comments.<\/p>\n<p>Though I&#8217;m pretty sure the &#8220;Obamas New Puppy&#8221; story had like, 9 million comments, and trumped them both.<\/p>\n<p>( <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/08\/after-air-force-one-flyover-military-office-director-resigns\/\">Resignation<\/a> &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/08\/pelosi-criticized-over-interrogation-briefings\/\">Pelosi<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of these NY Times articles, put into their political blog, is more important: &#8220;After Flyover of Air Force One Backup, Military Office Director Resigns&#8221;, the resignation of a, frankly reasonably competent man after making a high profile error. &#8220;Pelosi Criticized Over Interrogation Briefings&#8221;, concerning how much information the then House Minority Whip now [&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-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","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=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}