{"id":1105,"date":"2008-08-27T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2008-08-27T07:04:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T11:04:53","slug":"wednesday-open-thread-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/08\/27\/wednesday-open-thread-116\/","title":{"rendered":"No Way, Nohow, No McCain Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got nothing.  Actually, I have a lot, but I&#8217;m afraid to write it, because it&#8217;ll just make a big stink.  And I wouldn&#8217;t want to do that.<\/p>\n<p>I did break down and watch a little of &#8220;the convention&#8221; last night.  Some animatronic-looking guy with a huge chin, and that guy &#8211; Barry Switzer or Albert Schweitzer or whatever his name is, with the funny tie &#8211; from Montana (kept thinking it was a Polygrip commercial), and the guy Casey who is apparently the kid of another guy named Casey, and I watched Clinton for a while, but by then it was getting late and I didn&#8217;t last long (appreciated her wearing the SU orange, though).  <\/p>\n<p>None of this political speechifying does much for me anymore.  Might sound good, but it&#8217;s so far divorced from what they ever actually do, it&#8217;s kind of a joke.  I think I prefer to read the recap the next day (let&#8217;s face it; the only thing that matters is what the media tells us matters).<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I just wish I&#8217;d gone to bed earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got nothing. Actually, I have a lot, but I&#8217;m afraid to write it, because it&#8217;ll just make a big stink. And I wouldn&#8217;t want to do that. I did break down and watch a little of &#8220;the convention&#8221; last night. Some animatronic-looking guy with a huge chin, and that guy &#8211; Barry Switzer or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}