{"id":209,"date":"2008-04-08T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2008-04-08T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T23:03:09","slug":"the-politics-of-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/the-politics-of-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"The politics of meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politics is about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/DavidStrom\/2008\/02\/29\/finding_meaning_in_politics\">finding meaning<\/a>.  That&#8217;s probably why I have such a difficult time with politics.  For instance, I have no idea what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/politics\/5683768.html\">this means<\/a> (from an AP story about Hillary&#8217;s reaction to a McCain comment):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I fundamentally disagree,&#8221; Clinton said, reading from prepared remarks that aides said she wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does this mean that Clinton disagreed?  Or that she read her disagreement from prepared remarks?  Or that she wrote those remarks herself?  Or that aides said she wrote them?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m assuming there are actually editors working at the AP.  If this is edited copy, one must assume there is something more to this statement beyond the nominal quote.  Someone, please help me out, here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics is about finding meaning. That&#8217;s probably why I have such a difficult time with politics. For instance, I have no idea what this means (from an AP story about Hillary&#8217;s reaction to a McCain comment): &#8220;I fundamentally disagree,&#8221; Clinton said, reading from prepared remarks that aides said she wrote. Does this mean that Clinton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}