{"id":198450,"date":"2007-11-07T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/07\/kevin-drum-is-correct-of-course\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T04:51:00","slug":"kevin-drum-is-correct-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/07\/kevin-drum-is-correct-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Drum is Correct, of Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was wondering as to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2007_11\/012459.php\">what arguments would be made by the blogosphere <\/a> might make to explain the Democratic Party successes in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>He list 9 alternatives, and finishes with this bon mot, which is one of the wisest things I&#8217;ve read this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Whatever the consensus turns out to be, I&#8217;m declaring right now that I think it&#8217;s wrong. And somewhere in my archives there will be a post to prove that I thought this all along.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This man is a Regular Nostradamus.  I gotta make more predictions like this.  Curmudgeons get all the prognostic props, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was wondering as to what arguments would be made by the blogosphere might make to explain the Democratic Party successes in Virginia. He list 9 alternatives, and finishes with this bon mot, which is one of the wisest things I&#8217;ve read this year: Whatever the consensus turns out to be, I&#8217;m declaring right now &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1118,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-meta","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198450"}],"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=198450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}