{"id":55909,"date":"2015-10-29T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T17:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55909"},"modified":"2015-10-29T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T19:37:08","slug":"debateable-impressions-walter-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55909","title":{"rendered":"Debateable Impressions:   Walter Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up next: \u00a0John Kasich.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the conservative pundocracy says<\/strong>: \u00a0Kasich kept himself in the running with a strong, if cranky, performance. \u00a0Others point to his fairly bald-faced, McCainish up-sucking to the media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I say<\/strong>: \u00a0My short list, two months ago, was Walker, Jindal, Kasich. \u00a0With Walker gone and Jindal mired in the undercard and barely running a campaign, it looks like Kasich is the last man standing. \u00a0He gave a strong showing last night. \u00a0But am I the only one who saw his cranky demeanor and though about Jeff Dunham&#8217;s puppet-character &#8220;Walter&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: \u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope he can morph into something other than the campaign&#8217;s resident senior scold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up next: \u00a0John Kasich. What the conservative pundocracy says: \u00a0Kasich kept himself in the running with a strong, if cranky, performance. \u00a0Others point to his fairly bald-faced, McCainish up-sucking to the media. What I say: \u00a0My short list, two months ago, was Walker, Jindal, Kasich. \u00a0With Walker gone and Jindal mired in the undercard and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-media","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55909","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=55909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55926,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55909\/revisions\/55926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}