{"id":195163,"date":"2008-07-25T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/25\/epic-fail-3\/"},"modified":"2008-07-25T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T22:41:00","slug":"epic-fail-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/25\/epic-fail-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">WaPo<\/span> scribe Krissah Williams Thompson is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/21\/AR2008072102654.html\">talking with some young Republicans at a bar<\/a>, that she describes as, &#8220;A who&#8217;s who of young conservatives,&#8221; and they are bumming.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 20-something who helped steer Fred Thompson&#8217;s Internet operation.<\/li>\n<li>The young woman who put Mitt Romney&#8217;s Web site on the map.<\/li>\n<li>A 24-year-old staffer for Newt Gingrich&#8217;s American Solutions for Winning the Future.<\/li>\n<li>Editor in chief of the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Web site.<\/li>\n<li>A full time blogger at Townhall.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ummmm&#8230;.I thought that conservatives were <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">supposed<\/span> to feel crappy when they failed.  That they objected to efforts to raise self esteem absent of accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>When you are failures, you are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">supposed<\/span> to feel bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, WaPo scribe Krissah Williams Thompson is talking with some young Republicans at a bar, that she describes as, &#8220;A who&#8217;s who of young conservatives,&#8221; and they are bumming. Let&#8217;s see, we have: The 20-something who helped steer Fred Thompson&#8217;s Internet operation. The young woman who put Mitt Romney&#8217;s Web site on the map. 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":[982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195163"}],"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=195163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}