{"id":3703,"date":"2010-03-18T19:42:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T00:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2010-03-18T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T00:43:00","slug":"the-downside-of-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=3703","title":{"rendered":"The Downside of Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">I just spent about an hour writing a post which started out as a brilliant idea, but slowly ripened, or should I say decayed, into a piece of crap. Into the draft heap it went, probably never to be resurrected. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">Political punditry is just no fun these days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">I am hoping that the eventual passage of the health care bill will breathe new life into these pages. It&#8217;s been an unnecessarily long, and excessively strange trip. Who knew that an electorate that was unfazed by a president that wanted to spy on its every movement and assert an almost unlimited presidential power would suddenly smell fascism (or is it socialism, it&#8217;s so confusing) when the government tried to regulate health insurance companies? The one glimmer of hope is the fact that the new Know-Nothings appear to be losing steam, probably because they have been missing too much nap time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">So, maybe next week, or the week after, we will have other things to obsess about, fresh grist for the punditry mill. I can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent about an hour writing a post which started out as a brilliant idea, but slowly ripened, or should I say decayed, into a piece of crap. Into the draft heap it went, probably never to be resurrected. Political punditry is just no fun these days. I am hoping that the eventual passage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}