{"id":677,"date":"2005-04-27T13:44:35","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=677"},"modified":"2005-04-27T13:44:35","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T20:44:35","slug":"a-weary-nation-demands-an-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/04\/27\/a-weary-nation-demands-an-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weary Nation Demands an Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003410\"><\/a><i>Who was kicked out of the whig party in 1844 because he voted numbers 17 18 19?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thus asked someone who typed it into a search engine and wound up at Struat.com somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious answer appears to be John Tyler, but that was 1842 (though, to be sure, this affects the 1844 election).  The man who replaced William Henry &#8220;30 Days&#8221; Harrison for president, but wasn&#8217;t &#8220;Whig&#8221; enough for the party, for compromising with the Democrats against the will of the Whigs on tariff measures.  But that doesn&#8217;t explain who the heck voted numbers 17, 18, and 19 (that would have to be a House member or Senate member, because presidents don&#8217;t vote for stuff) or what the heck 17, 18, or 19 are.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who was kicked out of the whig party in 1844 because he voted numbers 17 18 19? Thus asked someone who typed it into a search engine and wound up at Struat.com somewhere. The obvious answer appears to be John Tyler, but that was 1842 (though, to be sure, this affects the 1844 election). The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-regurgitates-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}