{"id":2156,"date":"2008-02-22T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2008-02-22T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T12:22:00","slug":"not-reagan-not-wellstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2156","title":{"rendered":"Not Reagan, Not Wellstone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;not even David Cassidy in his prime had fans that were <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/politics\/blog\/2008\/02\/even_blowing_his_nose_obama_ge.html\">this friggin&#8217; bizarre<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, just a day before a debate in Texas, Sen. Barack Obama has a head cold.<\/p>\n<p>And about a half-hour into a speech here, the Illinois Democrat announced that he had to take a quick break. &#8220;Gotta blow my nose here for a second,&#8221; Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>Out came a Kleenex (or perhaps it was a hankie), and he wiped his nose.<\/p>\n<p>The near-capacity audience at the Reunion Arena, which his campaign said totaled 17,000, broke out in a slightly awkward applause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heaven help Western Civilization if he comes down with jock itch on the trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;not even David Cassidy in his prime had fans that were this friggin&#8217; bizarre: Yes, just a day before a debate in Texas, Sen. Barack Obama has a head cold. And about a half-hour into a speech here, the Illinois Democrat announced that he had to take a quick break. &#8220;Gotta blow my nose here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}