{"id":57368,"date":"2016-02-01T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57368"},"modified":"2016-02-01T08:50:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:50:55","slug":"57368","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57368","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"UFICommentContent\">\n<div class=\"_1dwg\">\n<div id=\"js_90\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<div id=\"id_56af6ea73ed899d04388860\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p>I&#8217;ve had some of my Democrat friends chuckling about the idea that the GOP might endorse Donald Trump for President.<\/p>\n<p>And I can see why they&#8217;re so giggly. The idea that a major political party might endorse someone with almost no relevant experience, whose entire campaign is built on saying things people want to hear (sometimes contradictory things to different audiences)? \u00a0The\u00a0product of cynical marketing aimed at a sincere but gullible and\u00a0undiscriminating audience? \u00a0A product bolstered with breathless media hype from a bloated, entitled and leadenly incurious media &#8211; the same media that was intimately complicit with creating him as a public figure in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>Why, that<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">&#8216;s just preposterous! \u00a0That&#8217;s almost like a bad movie!<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>(&#8220;Hey, Mitch &#8211; are you talking about Jesse Ventura?&#8221; \u00a0Why, no. \u00a0Very close, of course &#8211; but that was almost two decades ago).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_5wpt\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_3x-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had some of my Democrat friends chuckling about the idea that the GOP might endorse Donald Trump for President. And I can see why they&#8217;re so giggly. The idea that a major political party might endorse someone with almost no relevant experience, whose entire campaign is built on saying things people want to hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57368","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=57368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57372,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57368\/revisions\/57372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}