{"id":16545,"date":"2012-08-28T21:48:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T01:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16545"},"modified":"2012-08-28T21:48:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T01:48:13","slug":"conventional-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16545","title":{"rendered":"Conventional Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/honan.net\/gifs\/santorum.gif\" align=right><br \/>\nThe GOP convention is a transparent, shameless, deceptive sales pitch. There was a trivial amount of party bureaucracy to do, five seconds' worth, and it's done. But now... every second of the rest it, every word uttered, every speaker presented, is a prime-time snake-oil infomerical. They get to deliver extended remixes of the jaw-dropping lies they've been dishing out in 30-second teasers for the last 12 months. Other than that... ?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Nominees are chosen months before the conventions, these days, so there is no real reason to have this kind of convention any more - let alone devote so much coverage to it. They're making it crystal clear that they're simply using the media's reluctance to abandon tradition to get a week of free advertising for their guy.<\/p>\n<p>And it is nauseating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP convention is a transparent, shameless, deceptive sales pitch. There was a trivial amount of party bureaucracy to do, five seconds' worth, and it's done. But now... every second of the rest it, every word uttered, every speaker presented, is a prime-time snake-oil infomerical. They get to deliver extended remixes of the jaw-dropping lies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}