{"id":1638,"date":"2004-10-21T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2018-07-31T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:55:39","slug":"1638","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/1638\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut the Guy Some Slack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=184851\" target=\"_new\">John Kerry is going goose hunting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kerry will be out hunting geese today but he&#8217;s also out to bag more undecided voters.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry adviser Mike McCurry says Kerry&#8217;s Ohio goose hunt is aimed at giving voters &#8220;a better sense of John Kerry, the guy,&#8221; and maybe win over swing voters who aren&#8217;t sure they feel any connection to the Democrat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lay off him, wot?  <b>A man has got to feed his family.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Why, when I was a young man, my father was a carpenter\/remodeler whose work fell off in the winter time, and the ducks, geese, rabbits, and occasional deer that my father harvested sustained his family through the hard months of a Wisconsin winter.<\/p>\n<p>Why should it be any different for the billionaire Heinz-Kerry family? <\/p>\n<p>Look on the bright side, at least Teresa won&#8217;t have to worry about swallowing lead pellets, which was a morbid fear I had as a child because I didn&#8217;t want lead poisoning as part of my meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So John Kerry is going goose hunting: Kerry will be out hunting geese today but he&#8217;s also out to bag more undecided voters. Kerry adviser Mike McCurry says Kerry&#8217;s Ohio goose hunt is aimed at giving voters &#8220;a better sense of John Kerry, the guy,&#8221; and maybe win over swing voters who aren&#8217;t sure they [&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-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","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=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20890,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/20890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}