{"id":9567,"date":"2012-02-11T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T23:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2012-02-11T16:52:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T23:52:26","slug":"mitt-wins-stuff-and-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/02\/11\/mitt-wins-stuff-and-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt wins stuff, and things."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And after all this, Mitt Romney won the stupid straw poll.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A liberal, a moderate, and a conservative walk into a bar.\u00c2\u00a0 The bar-tender says, &#8216;Hi Mitt'&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Crowd guffows.<\/p>\n<p>One of the disconcerting aspects of politics, and it is pronounced on the &#8220;conservative&#8221; confluences like this, is something along the lines of:<\/p>\n<p>In Mitt Romney&#8217;s defensive CPAC speeche, he vowed that he has &#8220;breathed&#8221; and &#8220;lived&#8221; Conservatism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Whole of Your Being.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0effect becomes something like:\u00c2\u00a0If you are at a restaurant and order a bad roast beef sandwich, you shove it aside the place and mutter &#8220;Damned Liberal sandwich.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I see at the Alex Jones sight the question of whether Ron Paul will win the Maine caucuses.\u00c2\u00a0 The answer appears to be no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And after all this, Mitt Romney won the stupid straw poll. &#8220;A liberal, a moderate, and a conservative walk into a bar.\u00c2\u00a0 The bar-tender says, &#8216;Hi Mitt&#8217;&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Crowd guffows. One of the disconcerting aspects of politics, and it is pronounced on the &#8220;conservative&#8221; confluences like this, is something along the lines of: In Mitt Romney&#8217;s [&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-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","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=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9569,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions\/9569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}