{"id":4210,"date":"2008-01-24T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2017-11-03T16:04:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T21:04:11","slug":"hail-caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/hail-caesar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail, Caesar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The race for Matt Blunt&#8217;s successor as Republican candidate for Missouri takes an interesting turn as another government member <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/missouristatenews\/story\/45AB6E1B551CA797862573DA0063E9BA?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">amasses an army and leads it to Jefferson City<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m in,&#8221; Kinder said Thursday. Asked if there was any scenario in which he would not run, Kinder replied: &#8220;No. Crossed the Rubicon.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What, he&#8217;s not actually saying he&#8217;s started a civil war and an armed conflict to turn the Missouri Republic to the Missouri Empire?  Those whacky politicians and their misunderstood metaphors!<\/p>\n<p>(Full disclosure: I once was approached, sort of, to be a candidate to work on Kinder&#8217;s blog.  Which is why my name crops up from time to time on his team&#8217;s blogroll.  Obviously, I didn&#8217;t take it, which would have precluded me from snark like this.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race for Matt Blunt&#8217;s successor as Republican candidate for Missouri takes an interesting turn as another government member amasses an army and leads it to Jefferson City: &#8220;I&#8217;m in,&#8221; Kinder said Thursday. Asked if there was any scenario in which he would not run, Kinder replied: &#8220;No. Crossed the Rubicon.&#8221; What, he&#8217;s not actually [&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-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","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=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17246,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/17246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}