{"id":52,"date":"2004-10-01T22:06:40","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T22:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2004\/10\/01\/the-debate-and-politics-in-general\/"},"modified":"2004-10-01T22:06:40","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T22:06:40","slug":"the-debate-and-politics-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"the Debate, and politics in general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By hitting the &#8220;Next Blog&#8221; button (lookit &#8212; top right corner), I&#8217;ve discovered many other blogs. Interesting. Many of them are politically-focused and I&#8217;ve come across two being written by soldiers over in Iraq. Appropos to nothing, one of my coworkers was in Afghanistan for nearly a year.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230;as both of my blog readers are aware, I am stuck between a rock and a hard place, politically. My husband is pretty Republican (gave money to the RNC, has a picture of W in his office) and my mother is Definitely Democrat. Gene used to call my mother a Communist, but we all know he&#8217;s joking and he stopped as soon as\u00a0the boy\u00a0called her a Communist, too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m voting Kerry, y&#8217;all do what you want. ABB! (isn&#8217;t that the saying? Anyone But Bush?)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By hitting the &#8220;Next Blog&#8221; button (lookit &#8212; top right corner), I&#8217;ve discovered many other blogs. Interesting. Many of them are politically-focused and I&#8217;ve come across two being written by soldiers over in Iraq. Appropos to nothing, one of my coworkers was in Afghanistan for nearly a year. Anyway&#8230;as both of my blog readers are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-really-deep-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}