{"id":5663,"date":"2012-10-04T05:21:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T10:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2012-10-04T05:21:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T10:21:03","slug":"about-the-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=5663","title":{"rendered":"About the Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I turned it off about 15 minutes before it was over. It&#8217;s no news that Romney lied about his &#8220;program&#8221;. The really irritating, though not unexpected thing, is how the debate was solely concerned with the obsessions of the Very Serious People in the Beltway: cutting benefits and the deficit. Unemployment is still high, but no questions about that. Naturally no questions about climate change. The entire debate, almost, was about irrelevancies or peripheral issues.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Again, irritating but not surprising.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned it off about 15 minutes before it was over. It&#8217;s no news that Romney lied about his &#8220;program&#8221;. The really irritating, though not unexpected thing, is how the debate was solely concerned with the obsessions of the Very Serious People in the Beltway: cutting benefits and the deficit. Unemployment is still high, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","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=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}