{"id":7599,"date":"2016-03-07T09:36:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T15:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=7599"},"modified":"2016-03-07T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T15:39:58","slug":"whats-on-the-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/whats-on-the-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"what&#8217;s on the ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On the one hand we have an ongoing food-fight egged on by the media who only ask questions about the food-fight, and never follow any thread about substantive solutions to the worlds problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On the other hand, a serene and respectful candidate discussion about fantasy subjects that have never worked is encouraged, with a reality reduced to simplistic emotions for the least common denominator of voter, and a fawning media who never follow up on any problem in the world remotely connected to their simplisticism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The real adversary in this election is television media; CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS &amp; FOX.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand we have an ongoing food-fight egged on by the media who only ask questions about the food-fight, and never follow any thread about substantive solutions to the worlds problems. On the other hand, a serene and respectful candidate discussion about fantasy subjects that have never worked is encouraged, with a reality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7601,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}