{"id":866,"date":"2008-01-28T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=866"},"modified":"2008-01-27T19:05:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T00:05:04","slug":"monday-open-thread-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/01\/28\/monday-open-thread-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really wish I could feel happy about the way the Democratic primaries are going, but I&#8217;m afraid I just can&#8217;t.  I really wish the media had picked better candidates for us.  Better than Bush is a pretty low bar to set, but I guess we&#8217;re just gonna have to take it.  Unless one of the Republican bozos manages a win &#8211; which seems quite plausible to me, sad to say.  I don&#8217;t think another 100 years of invading and occupying middle east companies to ensure high profits for oil companies and bolster repressive (but &#8216;friendly&#8217;) regimes that we can do business with is a particularly bright prospect.  For many reasons &#8211; not the least of which being that we need to get off the oil to save the planet.  Not too crazy about the prospect of a Kristian States of America, either.  <\/p>\n<p>Not to mention it&#8217;s back to work today.  Bleh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really wish I could feel happy about the way the Democratic primaries are going, but I&#8217;m afraid I just can&#8217;t. I really wish the media had picked better candidates for us. Better than Bush is a pretty low bar to set, but I guess we&#8217;re just gonna have to take it. Unless one of [&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-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","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=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}