{"id":130,"date":"2004-09-30T15:43:49","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T22:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2004-09-30T15:43:49","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T22:43:49","slug":"the-first-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"The First Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping for more drama, weren&#8217;t you?  Some telling blows?  Some embarrassing mistakes?<\/p>\n<p>But no . . . I don&#8217;t think tonight&#8217;s debate changed any minds. What was the deal with the moderator asking Bush to comment on Kerry&#8217;s character but not asking Kerry to comment on Bush&#8217;s? I didn&#8217;t get that part. Now I have to watch the second round, if only to see whether the moderator evens things out by pitching an easy one to Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping for more drama, weren&#8217;t you? Some telling blows? Some embarrassing mistakes? But no . . . I don&#8217;t think tonight&#8217;s debate changed any minds. What was the deal with the moderator asking Bush to comment on Kerry&#8217;s character but not asking Kerry to comment on Bush&#8217;s? I didn&#8217;t get that part. Now [&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-130","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\/130","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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}