{"id":13360,"date":"2014-03-20T05:55:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13360"},"modified":"2014-03-20T05:59:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T10:59:14","slug":"running-on-the-orwellian-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/running-on-the-orwellian-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Running on the Orwellian Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there&#8217;s a Congressional candidate running the Democratic primary for MO-7 <a href=\"http:\/\/ksmu.org\/article\/jim-evans-announces-candidacy-congress-80057\" target=\"_blank\">who has a way with words<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am not a conventional candidate. I\u2019m a <b>progressive conservative<\/b> who believes we must build the future by honoring and learning from our past.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, it&#8217;s an Orwellian way with words.<\/p>\n<p>If you read his policy positions, it&#8217;s Democrat all the way down except for being a gun-rights supporter.  Probably a <em>reasonable<\/em> gun rights supporter.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only he could get Claire McCaskill to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/is-claire-mccaskill-helping-todd-akin-in-the-gop-primary\/article_5b4c2bcc-85d0-5893-820e-ebad045fe159.html\" target=\"_blank\">run an ads calling him too conservative for Missouri<\/a> to help him out in the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there&#8217;s a Congressional candidate running the Democratic primary for MO-7 who has a way with words: I am not a conventional candidate. I\u2019m a progressive conservative who believes we must build the future by honoring and learning from our past.\u201d Unfortunately, it&#8217;s an Orwellian way with words. If you read his policy positions, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-springfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13363,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions\/13363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}