{"id":45,"date":"2004-10-19T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/politics\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T17:22:00","slug":"politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The signs for various political candidates are everywhere these days.  And I just heard that GW has spent more on advertising than any candidate has ever done before.  Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if anybody could run for office without spending millions to do it?  There don&#8217;t seem to be any ground rules to this anymore.  How about this:<\/p>\n<p>1. publicly list your views, credentials, and plans for the future.<br \/>\n<br \/>2. have an independent panel review what you&#8217;ve said &#8211; if you lie, you&#8217;re disqualified.<br \/>\n<br \/>3. you pay a small processing fee and you&#8217;re on the ballot<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s it.  No ads, no backstabbing.  Civil, just, and fair.<\/p>\n<p>heh. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll never work.<\/p>\n<p>later<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-109820731735688736?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The signs for various political candidates are everywhere these days. And I just heard that GW has spent more on advertising than any candidate has ever done before. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if anybody could run for office without spending millions to do it? There don&#8217;t seem to be any ground rules to this anymore. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}