{"id":85,"date":"2006-08-15T19:40:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T02:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=85"},"modified":"2006-08-15T19:40:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T02:40:59","slug":"a-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/08\/15\/a-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004463\"><\/a>From the Weekly Standard comes this curious sentence, recounting an early vote total on election night flashing on the tv screen that showed Lieberman ahead.:<\/p>\n<p><i>Lieberman &#8212; who less than six years ago, as Al Gore&#8217;s running mate, came within one Supreme Court justice of being elected vice president &#8212; was about to be vindicated.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Okay, Matthew Continetti.  How is this statement supposed to work while maintaining George W Bush as the rightful winner of the presidency?  The Florida Supreme Court laxes and relaxes the standards of the Recount until all those dreaded hanging chads count too?  Just&#8230; curious.<\/p>\n<p>I oughta move away from Lieberman &#8212; Lamont now.  Turn to Virginia, where developments have unfolded that either will or will not help Jim Webb.  Or turn to Rhode Island, where all of a sudden Lincoln Chaffee himself looks as though he&#8217;d likely lose should he get past the primary.  Or look inward and gain inner strength through Buddha.  Whatever toots your horn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Weekly Standard comes this curious sentence, recounting an early vote total on election night flashing on the tv screen that showed Lieberman ahead.: Lieberman &#8212; who less than six years ago, as Al Gore&#8217;s running mate, came within one Supreme Court justice of being elected vice president &#8212; was about to be vindicated. [&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-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}