{"id":4419,"date":"2008-05-07T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2017-11-09T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T17:57:08","slug":"enjoy-your-popcorn-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/enjoy-your-popcorn-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy Your Popcorn, Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, a lot of conservative sorts of political observers have had a lot of fun watching Obama make a series of gaffes and get caught up in ill-considered personal relationships.<\/p>\n<p>However, as long as these things are coming out in the primaries, they&#8217;ll be old news by election time, and if Obama ends up the nominee, I think a long, bruising primary battle will have given him some inkling of what he&#8217;ll face in a real election, so he&#8217;ll be better equipped for the real election than if the Democrats had just crowned him early.<\/p>\n<p>The bruising fight between Obama and Hillary might be fun for some conservatives to watch, but ultimately it might strengthen Obama just enough for November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, a lot of conservative sorts of political observers have had a lot of fun watching Obama make a series of gaffes and get caught up in ill-considered personal relationships. However, as long as these things are coming out in the primaries, they&#8217;ll be old news by election time, and if Obama ends up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419","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=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17368,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions\/17368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}