{"id":131,"date":"2005-11-16T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2005-11-16T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T15:59:19","slug":"an-award-and-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/16\/an-award-and-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"An Award and observation&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hereby award J.J. the nickel-plated copper star award with the Presidential Seal imprint for having the most (so far) comments (24) on individual post entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=116\">The Next Prez <\/a>&#8211; a political quagmire of simplicity&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As an appropriate ending comment to that post, which will undoubtedly start a new onslaught of comments, I submit this statement by <em>Art Spander, newspaper columnist<\/em>:  &#8220;The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I provide the following as proof of this statement:  The constant re-election of Ted Kennedy and those stupid New Yorkers that not only allowed two Arkansas criminals to take up residence there, but elected one of them as a Senator&#8230;&#8230;  God help us&#8230;&#8230;  Oh,  jeez, I forgot to separate Church and state!&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Did our forefathers actually intend for politics to be a lifetime career?&#8230;&#8230;  I don&#8217;t think so, and therein, my friend, lies the biggest problem of these United States&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hereby award J.J. the nickel-plated copper star award with the Presidential Seal imprint for having the most (so far) comments (24) on individual post entitled The Next Prez &#8211; a political quagmire of simplicity&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; As an appropriate ending comment to that post, which will undoubtedly start a new onslaught of comments, I submit this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}