{"id":199047,"date":"2007-09-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/17\/what-a-sad-pathetic-old-man\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T10:00:00","slug":"what-a-sad-pathetic-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/17\/what-a-sad-pathetic-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Sad Pathetic Old Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=3610781\">saying that he has been a baptist for years<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has long identified himself as an Episcopalian, said this weekend that he is a Baptist and has been for years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s not going to get the nomination.  He needs to accept that, absent some major upheaval <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not of his own making<\/span>, he will not get the nod.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say that he should try to take all of this with a bit of class, but really and truly, he&#8217;s never shown any, he&#8217;s just convinced the press that he has some by keeping their glasses filled, both literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain is now saying that he has been a baptist for years: Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has long identified himself as an Episcopalian, said this weekend that he is a Baptist and has been for years. He&#8217;s not going to get the nomination. He needs to accept that, absent some major upheaval &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199047"}],"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=199047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}