{"id":253,"date":"2008-06-08T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2008-06-08T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T02:32:10","slug":"can-the-candidates-get-away-with-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/can-the-candidates-get-away-with-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the candidates get away with this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think a <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/04\/a-mccain-obama-roadshow\/\">McCain-Obama roadshow<\/a> is a great idea.  The media will hate it because it greatly reduces their <a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=tim_russert_stop_the_inanity\">starring role<\/a>, wherein they shake the candidates around and upside down in order to collect any sound-bites or &#8220;gotcha&#8221; moments that might fall out.  What we&#8217;ll get, instead, is a discussion.  Heck, the networks may not even show up for that.<\/p>\n<p>If they somehow end up in 10 traditional debates\/sound-bite war, I will begin to campaign for choosing our president by lot.  Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think a McCain-Obama roadshow is a great idea. The media will hate it because it greatly reduces their starring role, wherein they shake the candidates around and upside down in order to collect any sound-bites or &#8220;gotcha&#8221; moments that might fall out. What we&#8217;ll get, instead, is a discussion. Heck, the networks may not [&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-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","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=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}