{"id":1163,"date":"2008-10-15T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2008-10-14T19:33:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T23:33:47","slug":"wednesday-open-thread-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/10\/15\/wednesday-open-thread-120\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, the night we&#8217;ve been waiting for, for what seems like years now &#8211; the final presidential debate of 2008.  Tonight&#8217;s debate takes place at 9:00 PM Eastern time from the campus of Hofstra University.  I can&#8217;t imagine how tonight&#8217;s ceremonies can actually change anybody&#8217;s mind, barring something really odd happening. Like maybe McCain flipping out and having his cheek lump explode, or Obama saying, &#8220;yeah, you know what, I <strong><em>am<\/em><\/strong> a fuckin&#8217; Arab terrorist, and I&#8217;m <strong><em>still<\/em><\/strong> a better candidate than this pathetic, crazy old half dead miserable son-of-a-bitch you dumbass Republicans nominated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that would be both interesting and fun to watch, and if we&#8217;ve learned anything from the first two debates, it&#8217;s that there&#8217;ll be none of that.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, much like a train wreck, I just won&#8217;t be able to look away.  For those of you who feel the same way, the <a href=\"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/mschat\/\">Debate Chat Room<\/a> will be open for the festivities.  Hope to see you all there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, the night we&#8217;ve been waiting for, for what seems like years now &#8211; the final presidential debate of 2008. Tonight&#8217;s debate takes place at 9:00 PM Eastern time from the campus of Hofstra University. I can&#8217;t imagine how tonight&#8217;s ceremonies can actually change anybody&#8217;s mind, barring something really odd happening. Like maybe [&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-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","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=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}