{"id":826,"date":"2008-08-29T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/29\/2008-8-29-jaunty-election-blorg-batting-250-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:27","slug":"2008-8-29-jaunty-election-blorg-batting-250-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/2008-8-29-jaunty-election-blorg-batting-250-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaunty Election Blorg: Batting .250!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>News comes this morning that John McCain has picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. NPR is calling it a &#8220;surprising choice,&#8221; but they hadn&#8217;t visited this space in <a href=\"\/2007\/08\/jaunty-election-blorg-too-early-to-tell.html\" target=\"_blank\">August of last year<\/a>. If they had, they could&#8217;ve reveled in my rationale for the Giuliani\/Palin ticket facing off against Clinton\/Obama.<\/p>\n<p>See? I&#8217;m some kind of electoral genius!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, News comes this morning that John McCain has picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. NPR is calling it a &#8220;surprising choice,&#8221; but they hadn&#8217;t visited this space in August of last year. If they had, they could&#8217;ve reveled in my rationale for the Giuliani\/Palin ticket facing off against Clinton\/Obama. See? I&#8217;m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/2008-8-29-jaunty-election-blorg-batting-250-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jaunty Election Blorg: Batting .250!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,18],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","tag-punditry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}