{"id":654,"date":"2008-09-29T17:38:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=654"},"modified":"2008-09-29T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:38:52","slug":"politics-from-thousands-of-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"politics from thousands of miles away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \tThis afternoon, I hosted a little debate-watching party.  Well, party is a strong word for it.  Get-together.  Since we have the Slingbox, I figured I should do it.    It&#8217;s important.  Especially here where we aren&#8217;t bombarded with ads and phone calls and the like.  Although if the Obama campaign calls me again at 2am,  I&#8217;m going to have to smack someone.<\/p>\n<p>\tI was a little worried&#8230; I have not shared my political views with the others here since I&#8217;m clearly more liberal than any of them.   But I figured I have a background of at least trying to maintain some impartiality&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>\tThere were no political fist fights.   Small debates but nothing heated.  I don&#8217;t think I managed to keep my opinion to myself.  Oh, well.<\/p>\n<p>\tI offered to record and host showings of each of the debates.  When we see how they all turn out&#8230;. I&#8217;ll get back to ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, I hosted a little debate-watching party. Well, party is a strong word for it. Get-together. Since we have the Slingbox, I figured I should do it. It&#8217;s important. Especially here where we aren&#8217;t bombarded with ads and phone calls and the like. Although if the Obama campaign calls me again at 2am, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}