{"id":196794,"date":"2008-03-24T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/24\/because-right-now-the-stakes-are-so-small\/"},"modified":"2008-03-24T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T02:33:00","slug":"because-right-now-the-stakes-are-so-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/24\/because-right-now-the-stakes-are-so-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Because Right Now the Stakes are So Small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again Josh Marshall has a <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/185234.php\">good insight<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But it seems to me that the real reason the Democratic primary race has gone from heated to vicious (at least among the candidates&#8217; supporters, if not the candidates themselves) is precisely because we&#8217;re in this awkward seven week hiatus in which there are no actual elections being held.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is no weekly reality check for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again Josh Marshall has a good insight But it seems to me that the real reason the Democratic primary race has gone from heated to vicious (at least among the candidates&#8217; supporters, if not the candidates themselves) is precisely because we&#8217;re in this awkward seven week hiatus in which there are no actual elections being &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196794"}],"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=196794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}