{"id":196672,"date":"2008-04-02T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/02\/full-metal-pander\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T01:59:00","slug":"full-metal-pander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/02\/full-metal-pander\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Metal Pander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama is now saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2008\/04\/obama_id_hire_gore.php\">he wants to put Al Gore in his cabinet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, gotta call serious Chapstik<sup>&reg;<\/sup> moment.  I know that candidates have to kiss the electorate&#8217;s butt, that is, after all a core value of democracy, but this one is kind of blatant.<\/p>\n<p>Not a good move, particularly when it&#8217;s clear for the people who really care about such things, Albert Gore will not take the job.<\/p>\n<p>If you offered him the presidency though&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama is now saying that he wants to put Al Gore in his cabinet. Sorry, gotta call serious Chapstik&reg; moment. I know that candidates have to kiss the electorate&#8217;s butt, that is, after all a core value of democracy, but this one is kind of blatant. Not a good move, particularly when it&#8217;s clear for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196672"}],"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=196672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}