{"id":17114,"date":"2012-10-29T11:35:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T15:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17114"},"modified":"2012-10-29T11:35:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T15:35:45","slug":"sandys-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17114","title":{"rendered":"Sandy's Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On second thought. Wow.... that's a lot of flooding, NYC. Stay safe.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/10\/sandys-politics.html'>Sullivan gathers predictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here's mine:<\/p>\n<p>Wingnut governors, knowing that people tend to lump all government together, will drag their feet ever-so-slightly in their responses to the hurricane: not enough to hurt anyone, just enough to leave a bad taste in people's mouths - leave some trees lying around for a couple of days longer than they could, for example. The noise machine will work to turn that dissatisfaction against Obama, FEMA, and the federal government in general - because, remember, wingnuts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2012\/10\/why-mitt-romney-wanted-shutter-fema\">hate FEMA<\/a>. And if slow response means a few Democratic-leaning voters can't get to the polls, well, then that's too bad. too.<\/p>\n<p>... no, not quite serious. Just giving the old cynicism a good crank on a stormy Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On second thought. Wow.... that's a lot of flooding, NYC. Stay safe.<\/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-17114","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\/17114","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=17114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}