{"id":638,"date":"2005-06-08T19:16:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T02:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=638"},"modified":"2005-06-08T19:16:27","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T02:16:27","slug":"kerry-was-a-mediocre-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/06\/08\/kerry-was-a-mediocre-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry was a mediocre student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003493\"><\/a>One of the dumber storylines of the 2004 campaign, election campaigns being a nattering of silliness largely best left ignored (though never ignored &#8212; lest by me) instead toward  the pursuit of the question of who bought the individual candidates (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumeraffairs.com\/news04\/2005\/schwarzenegger_ad.html\">California offers a glimpse on how this matter will be resolved in the near future<\/a>) &#8212; the demand to see Kerry&#8217;s records &#8212; has now been belatedly resolved.<\/p>\n<p>The same major players that were documented to have engaged in a flip-flop in the &#8220;Swift Boat Veterans for Truth&#8221; were discovered to have &#8230; yes indeed, given Kerry high praise.<\/p>\n<p>And Kerry was a mediocre student.<\/p>\n<p>What does the latter one mean?  Perhaps when you&#8217;re scheming world domination within the confines of Skull and Bones, the matter of academic achievement means nothing &#8212; you&#8217;re set, <i>right?<\/i>.  The matter of the &#8220;Swift Boat&#8221; crapola remains what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the dumber storylines of the 2004 campaign, election campaigns being a nattering of silliness largely best left ignored (though never ignored &#8212; lest by me) instead toward the pursuit of the question of who bought the individual candidates (California offers a glimpse on how this matter will be resolved in the near future) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}