{"id":49,"date":"2006-10-02T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/10\/i-hate-politics.html"},"modified":"2010-03-22T13:33:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:33:14","slug":"i-hate-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/10\/i-hate-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of things I hate about politics but right now it&#8217;s the political ads.  Every other ad on TV and radio is for one or the other candidate in one of the many races happening here.  It&#8217;s insane.  I think I&#8217;m getting dumber with every commercial I see.  By the time November 2nd comes around, I may not be able to read well enough to vote, let alone make a complex decision about who I hate least.<\/p>\n<p>What ever happened to debates?  What ever happened to candidates conveying information about themselves and their views rather than accusing their opponents of stupidity at best and steal-your-firstborn malevolence at worst.  And might I ask how much money they&#8217;re spending on these USELESS ads accusing each other of spending too much money?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wish I were a Republican or Democrat so I could stop thinking and start voting on party lines.  But no, I&#8217;m one of those <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">indecisive<\/span> ornery voters whom candidates hope to sway using TV and radio ads&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Iris, and I approved this message&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small>Disclaimer: Apologies to those of you with political convictions.  I&#8217;m sure you think.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of things I hate about politics but right now it&#8217;s the political ads. Every other ad on TV and radio is for one or the other candidate in one of the many races happening here. It&#8217;s insane. I think I&#8217;m getting dumber with every commercial I see. By the time November 2nd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/10\/i-hate-politics.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Hate Politics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me-and-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}