{"id":500,"date":"2009-01-26T22:43:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T03:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2009-01-26T22:48:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T03:48:37","slug":"politics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I voted for the winner. However&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of people that see Obama&#8217;s election as a magical event, something that will change the world. I&#8217;m of a slightly different opinion. I think the event that changed the world was the willingness of people to vote for him. As far as I&#8217;ve seen and what he&#8217;s showed us, there are some areas where he&#8217;s still going to be just another politician trying to make the country work. At least he&#8217;s surrounded himself with smart people instead of motivated ones. And he&#8217;s got to work through the mess he was left.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the recession goes, I blame Phil Gramm and his huge amendment that curtailed regulation of the banking industry back in 1992. If he hadn&#8217;t done that, there would have at least been a measure of government oversight in place instead of the artificially created wealth that happened. I also blame the discovery channel and their TV shows that basically encouraged people to believe that anyone could flip property at-will. The cycle had to end at some point; you&#8217;d run out of people or properties.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, time for sleep, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I voted for the winner. However&#8230;. There are a lot of people that see Obama&#8217;s election as a magical event, something that will change the world. I&#8217;m of a slightly different opinion. I think the event that changed the world was the willingness of people to vote for him. As far as I&#8217;ve seen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=500\" 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-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}