{"id":51,"date":"2005-03-30T17:50:01","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T21:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/wordpress\/?p=51"},"modified":"2005-03-30T17:50:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T21:50:04","slug":"what-the-oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"What the Oops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> don&#8217;t curse but I doze off for a minute while watching CNN: there was some kind of commercial from the &#8216;Concerned citizens of whatever&#8217; with a typical political spiel (in this case Republican). Yadda-yadda-Social-Security.\n<\/p>\n<p>A second later, when I woke up, another commercial played, voicing the opposing view (Democrat!) on a different topic, this time on how Congress overstepped its responsibilities in the Schiavo case. I mean, the case wasn&#8217;t mentioned, but the theme was obvious.\n<\/p>\n<p>There were days you could eat a bag of popcorn while watching CNN. Today? It&#8217;s even a bigger mess: I long for those days in Holland were political parties had an allotted (and fixed) time to showcase their programmes and agendas and talking points <em>after<\/em> the 8 o&#8217; clock news and only <em>before<\/em> the official election date.\n<\/p>\n<p>Outrageous, this. We can all curse now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t curse but I doze off for a minute while watching CNN: there was some kind of commercial from the &#8216;Concerned citizens of whatever&#8217; with a typical political spiel (in this case Republican). Yadda-yadda-Social-Security. A second later, when I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=51\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}