{"id":347,"date":"2005-11-10T20:49:15","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T00:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/10\/happy-and-sad-current-affairs\/"},"modified":"2005-11-10T20:52:11","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T00:52:11","slug":"happy-and-sad-current-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/10\/happy-and-sad-current-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy and Sad current affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2005_11_06.php#006980\">Talking Points Memo<\/a> has been tracking the what I hope is the beginning of the end of the Republican dominance, and some of today&#8217;s posts are really cheering me up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The recognition has sunk in: The president is unpopular and weak. And it&#8217;s every Republican for him or herself.<\/p>\n<p>And did I mention, pass the popcorn?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the other hand over at <a href=\"http:\/\/bradleyparker.blogs.com\/wheres_travis_mcgee\/2005\/11\/a_sad_storry_ab.html\">Where&#8217;s Travis McGee<\/a> the current New Orleans &#8220;driving while black&#8221; story is really pissing me off. Come on people it&#8217;s the 21st century, we should be so past <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melanin\">melanin<\/a>-based <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xenophobia\">xenophobia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t pull out a flavour quote&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/bradleyparker.blogs.com\/wheres_travis_mcgee\/2005\/11\/a_sad_storry_ab.html\">just go read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Talking Points Memo has been tracking the what I hope is the beginning of the end of the Republican dominance, and some of today&#8217;s posts are really cheering me up: The recognition has sunk in: The president is unpopular and weak. And it&#8217;s every Republican for him or herself. And did I mention, pass the popcorn? On the other hand&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/10\/happy-and-sad-current-affairs\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-explodes","category-political","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-5B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}