{"id":3560,"date":"2008-01-30T11:14:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T18:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2008-01-30T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T18:14:39","slug":"the-presidental-race-tightens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/30\/the-presidental-race-tightens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presidental Race Tightens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two candidates abandoned their bids for the White House, today.<\/p>\n<p>First, Rudy &#8220;9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11&#8221; Giuliani, who was the national frontrunner as recently as four months ago:<\/p>\n<div align='center'><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5iyM-KTdp3jrniNOZ80hWZGc7ZWiQD8UGANT81\" title=\"thank god by Matthew Baldwin, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2290\/2230567527_f14576e61e.jpg\" border=0 width=\"390\" height=\"500\" alt=\"thank god\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Some say that he ran a poor campaign, but I think the whole thing was a painstakingly orchestrated business move.  Having learned, in wake of September 11th, that he could make astronomical speaking fees for being associated with disaster, he figured another debacle on his resume could only help.<\/p>\n<p>And we also bid farewell to John &#8220;Wait, you&#8217;re running for president?&#8221; Edwards:<\/p>\n<div align='center'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/story\/2008\/01\/30\/ST2008013001407.html&#038;cid=1127158681\" title=\"Thanks, you two by Matthew Baldwin, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2367\/2231386098_01519d4992_o.jpg\" border=0 alt=\"Thanks, you two\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Edwards said the decision to withdraw was a tough one, but he wanted to devote more time to his 2012 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two candidates abandoned their bids for the White House, today. First, Rudy &#8220;9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11 9\/11&#8221; Giuliani, who was the national frontrunner as recently as four months ago: Some say that he ran a poor campaign, but I think the whole thing was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}