{"id":181201,"date":"2016-09-03T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/03\/not-the-onion-7\/"},"modified":"2016-09-03T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T00:24:00","slug":"not-the-onion-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/03\/not-the-onion-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Not The Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned that <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/i-have-irresistable-urge-to-live-in.html\">this election season has me wanting to live in a cave until it is all over<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2016-09-02\/putin-blasts-both-trump-and-clinton-for-shock-campaign-tactics\">Vladimir Putin has found the current election insanity unsettling as well<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Vladimir Putin blasted both Donald Trump\u2019s and Hillary Clinton\u2019s tactics on the campaign trail but refused to publicly take sides in a U.S. presidential race in which he\u2019s been accused of secretly favoring the New York real estate billionaire.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThey\u2019re both using shock tactics, just each in their own way,\u201d the Russian president said in an interview. \u201cI don\u2019t think they are setting the best example,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have the two must unelectable candidates engaging in truly awful campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>No matter who wins, the American people lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned that this election season has me wanting to live in a cave until it is all over. It appears that Vladimir Putin has found the current election insanity unsettling as well: Vladimir Putin blasted both Donald Trump\u2019s and Hillary Clinton\u2019s tactics on the campaign trail but refused to publicly take sides in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,965],"tags":[799,823,809,816],"class_list":["post-181201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-hillary-clinton","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-russia","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181201"}],"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=181201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}