{"id":129,"date":"2004-10-11T15:42:52","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T22:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2004-10-11T15:42:52","modified_gmt":"2004-10-11T22:42:52","slug":"the-second-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"The Second Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what four more years of George W. Bush will bring, particularly to working class people, people like me. Because that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re likely to get. John Kerry spends entirely too much time defending himself against W&#8217;s accusations. He should have come out early against our invasion of Iraq &#8211; early and strong. He&#8217;s just too compromised now.<\/p>\n<p>My otherwise intelligent Republican friends, meanwhile, are sending me idiotic anti-Kerry e-mails &#8211; one, full of photos of W. looking presidential against shots of Kerry looking silly or effete; another, full of &#8220;good news&#8221; from Iraq, where things are apparently going quite well.<\/p>\n<p>What are otherwise intelligent Democrats doing right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what four more years of George W. Bush will bring, particularly to working class people, people like me. Because that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re likely to get. John Kerry spends entirely too much time defending himself against W&#8217;s accusations. He should have come out early against our invasion of Iraq &#8211; early and strong. He&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}