{"id":199136,"date":"2007-09-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/04\/endorsements-and-superstitions\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T10:00:00","slug":"endorsements-and-superstitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/04\/endorsements-and-superstitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorsements and Superstitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Nixon was nominated in 1968, my father said, &#8220;Those idiot Republicans, there is no way we can lose now&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My dad still has a few hundred sheets of McGovern stationary in the house.<\/p>\n<p>I supported Howard Dean, and went to the meetups, and worked on a campaign for state house where the candidate finished 6th.<\/p>\n<p>While I do have a preference on who gets the Democratic nomination, I have this feeling that my explicitly endorsing a candidate would jinx that individual.<\/p>\n<p>So, for right now, I&#8217;m being held hostage to these superstitions, and I am quite well aware that this is stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Nixon was nominated in 1968, my father said, &#8220;Those idiot Republicans, there is no way we can lose now&#8221;. My dad still has a few hundred sheets of McGovern stationary in the house. I supported Howard Dean, and went to the meetups, and worked on a campaign for state house where the candidate finished &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199136"}],"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=199136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}