{"id":15068,"date":"2016-01-15T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T20:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15068"},"modified":"2016-01-15T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T20:21:34","slug":"franking-my-dear-i-do-give-a-damn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/franking-my-dear-i-do-give-a-damn\/","title":{"rendered":"Franking, My Dear, I Do Give A Damn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the election year, so it means it&#8217;s time for officials who are running for office to send out Official Communiques with four-color process and their pictures above the fold.<\/p>\n<p>Right, Chris Koster?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/koster.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember getting slick newsletters about how Attorney General and Candidate for Governor Chris Koster has fought to keep my phone line free of calls except for the multiple times daily I get recorded calls for&#8230;. well, I&#8217;m not sure, really, as I don&#8217;t get far enough into them to know what they&#8217;re pitching.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also not sure why there are three telephone numbers on the list: My home phone and two numbers I don&#8217;t recognize (and never have had, since I&#8217;ve only had one phone number in the 417 area code in my life).<\/p>\n<p>I am sure of one thing, though: I cynically believe that this mailing was sent out only because he&#8217;s running for another office and wants to (defensibly) use state money to get his face before voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the election year, so it means it&#8217;s time for officials who are running for office to send out Official Communiques with four-color process and their pictures above the fold. Right, Chris Koster? I don&#8217;t remember getting slick newsletters about how Attorney General and Candidate for Governor Chris Koster has fought to keep my phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068","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=15068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15069,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068\/revisions\/15069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}