{"id":439,"date":"2007-10-08T19:05:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T00:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2008-01-27T08:55:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T13:55:01","slug":"politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just so y&#8217;all know, I&#8217;m a left-leaning person. I&#8217;d like to think I have enough sense to know what&#8217;s right and what&#8217;s wrong with this world, but I know that one person, no matter who they are, doesn&#8217;t have everything.<\/p>\n<p>I do think that this current administration has done more to alienate the rest of the world than a lot of previous ones. From the &#8220;don&#8217;t tax and spend&#8221; mentality that has pushed our debt to record levels to a war based on wrong information, the president hasn&#8217;t done anything to truly change ordinary people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to think better of the president, but I don&#8217;t. He&#8217;s failed upwards ever since his days of Arbusto Oil.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t like any of the Republican candidates, and I&#8217;m not that fond of the Democratic ones either. About the only one who&#8217;d get my vote would be John Edwards, and that&#8217;s primarily because he&#8217;s talked about issues closer to home. Even then, he&#8217;s got some blemishes, too.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m pontificating. It&#8217;s all kinda moot to talk about a Democratic nominee in Texas, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just so y&#8217;all know, I&#8217;m a left-leaning person. I&#8217;d like to think I have enough sense to know what&#8217;s right and what&#8217;s wrong with this world, but I know that one person, no matter who they are, doesn&#8217;t have everything. I do think that this current administration has done more to alienate the rest of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}