{"id":57350,"date":"2024-05-31T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=57350"},"modified":"2024-05-31T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T22:52:14","slug":"past-prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2024\/05\/31\/past-prologue\/","title":{"rendered":"past prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pat Buchanan and William Safire are in a bull-session writing alliterative phrases for Vice President Agnew. They high-five at &#8220;nattering nabobs of negativity&#8221;. Somewhere along the line, Safire writes down &#8220;bleached blonde bad built butch body&#8221;. Hands it over. Buchanan stared at the paper, says &#8220;I don&#8217;t get it&#8221;, crumples the paper and throws it into the waste basket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I throw my hands a little at one point made in Marjorie Taylor Greene.  It is the effects of gerrymandering, they cry.  We need to fix partisan gerrymandering, a production that has in the past two decades gotten sophisticated past anything perceived prior to this century.  Never mind that Greene&#8217;s district is the same geographic area, largely, as that of Congressman Larry MacDonald, John Birch Society President.  They get their congressional representative and unless we are thinking &#8220;decimate that one&#8221;, that just becomes a re-gerrymander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Buchanan and William Safire are in a bull-session writing alliterative phrases for Vice President Agnew. They high-five at &#8220;nattering nabobs of negativity&#8221;. Somewhere along the line, Safire writes down &#8220;bleached blonde bad built butch body&#8221;. Hands it over. Buchanan stared at the paper, says &#8220;I don&#8217;t get it&#8221;, crumples the paper and throws it [&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-57350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57350","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=57350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57351,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57350\/revisions\/57351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}