{"id":265,"date":"2008-06-22T00:07:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T08:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2008-06-22T00:07:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T08:07:19","slug":"the-extreme-advantage-of-incumbency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/the-extreme-advantage-of-incumbency\/","title":{"rendered":"The extreme advantage of incumbency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little town in Romania voted to re-elect their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/oddlyEnoughNews\/idUSL1626574720080616?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=oddlyEnoughNews\">dead mayor<\/a>.  One often hears of democracy as a process that fools voters into believing that they can get whatever they want.  This election was the ultimate test for these voters.  &#8220;I know he died, but I don&#8217;t want change,&#8221; said a supporter of the former mayor.  Presumably, keeping the old mayor would prevent any change, if one overlooked the inconvenient difference between <em>life and death<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hodakvalue.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/congress_a_welloiled_machine.html\">advantage of incumbency<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little town in Romania voted to re-elect their dead mayor. One often hears of democracy as a process that fools voters into believing that they can get whatever they want. This election was the ultimate test for these voters. &#8220;I know he died, but I don&#8217;t want change,&#8221; said a supporter of the former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irrationality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","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=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}