{"id":178839,"date":"2018-08-07T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/07\/damn-9\/"},"modified":"2018-08-07T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T03:26:00","slug":"damn-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/07\/damn-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Cross\/Blue Shield&#8217;s candidate, Gretchen Whitmer just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/2018\/08\/07\/gretchen-whitmer-bill-schuette-michigan-governor\/915048002\/\">won the Democratic Party primary for Governor in Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Details on her ties to the insurance company <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/02\/22\/gretchen-whitmer-executives-are-working-hard-against-a-pro-single-payer-candidate-for-governor\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The special election in Ohio&#8217;s 12<sup>th<\/sup> Congressional district, which has been presented as a bellwether<sup>*<\/sup> for November is too close to call, but it looks like the Republican has a vote lead of a little bit more than a thousand votes.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/bellwether\">etymology of the word &#8220;bellwether&#8221; is interesting<\/a>, it literally means a castrated sheep with a bell around its neck.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">I find the juxtaposition of politics and castrated sheep remarkably apropos.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Cross\/Blue Shield&#8217;s candidate, Gretchen Whitmer just won the Democratic Party primary for Governor in Michigan. Details on her ties to the insurance company here. The special election in Ohio&#8217;s 12th Congressional district, which has been presented as a bellwether* for November is too close to call, but it looks like the Republican has a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,515,374],"class_list":["post-178839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-language","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}