{"id":9820,"date":"2020-02-04T01:43:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T06:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9820"},"modified":"2020-02-04T01:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T06:43:58","slug":"banana-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9820","title":{"rendered":"Banana republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before heading to bed, I briefly turned on CNN, to listen to a few minutes of the coverage of the Iowa caucus fiasco.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9821\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/iowa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/iowa.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/iowa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/iowa-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In light of what I am hearing, I only have one question: Exactly when did the great United States turn into an incompetent banana republic?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, actually, I also have a second question. Is this how the Democratic Party planning to beat Donald Trump in November?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9820' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before heading to bed, I briefly turned on CNN, to listen to a few minutes of the coverage of the Iowa caucus fiasco. In light of what I am hearing, I only have one question: Exactly when did the great United States turn into an incompetent banana republic? Hmmm, actually, I also have a second <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9820' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9822,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions\/9822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}