{"id":179624,"date":"2017-12-12T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/12\/sorry-mississippi\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T04:08:00","slug":"sorry-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/12\/sorry-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Mississippi\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are still the go to state for jokes about backward, inbred, racist hicks, because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/elections\/results\/alabama-senate-special-election-roy-moore-doug-jones\">Roy Moore lost in the Senate election in Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I did not expect him to win, he spent a lot of the usual suspects among the DC consultants, but it appears that there are lines that <b>SOME<\/b> Republican voters are unwilling to cross, even in Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are still the go to state for jokes about backward, inbred, racist hicks, because Roy Moore lost in the Senate election in Alabama. I did not expect him to win, he spent a lot of the usual suspects among the DC consultants, but it appears that there are lines that SOME Republican voters are &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":[447,375,421],"class_list":["post-179624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179624"}],"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=179624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}