{"id":2231,"date":"2008-01-31T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T19:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2008-01-31T15:56:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T19:56:02","slug":"feel-the-straight-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"Straight Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2000\/02\/18\/MN32194.DTL\">McCain,  in 2000<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"I hate the gooks,\" McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. \"I will hate them as long as I live.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Later, he clarified, saying that he was only talking about the individuals that imprisoned and tortured him (by itself a reasonable position, IMO - I'd hate them too).  But, replace \"gooks\" with a more familiar ethnic slur, the <i>N-word<\/i>, for example. Does the clarification get him off the hook ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCain, in 2000: \"I hate the gooks,\" McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. \"I will hate them as long as I live.\" Later, he clarified, saying that he was only talking about the individuals that imprisoned and tortured him (by itself a reasonable position, IMO - I'd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}