{"id":1400,"date":"2008-02-05T18:57:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T23:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2008-02-05T18:57:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T23:57:13","slug":"start-the-democratic-process-without-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"Start the democratic process without me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m feeling low tonight.<\/strong> I think I may be suffering from chicken soup fatigue. And the whole thing\u2019s frustrating. All winter I\u2019ve been trying to get on a workout regimen, using my Nordic Track, and every time I get to where I\u2019m starting to feel the benefits, I come down with another cold. And by the time I\u2019ve recovered I\u2019m back to square one.<\/p>\n<p>Also I suppose I\u2019m feeling guilty because I won\u2019t be attending the Minnesota caucuses tonight. I\u2019m staying away out of principle, you understand. The caucus system is a transparent attempt by The Man to disenfranchise the Avoidant-American community, and I refuse to prop up such an unjust system.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been listening to talk radio, too, and the calls have convinced me that both of the Republican frontrunners are probably Communist moles. Possibly alien pod people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyway,<\/strong> if you haven\u2019t checked Joe Carter\u2019s <i>Evangelical Outpost<\/i> today, he has a great post on t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evangelicaloutpost.com\/archives\/004215.html\">he true story of Galileo and the Inquisition<\/a>. It\u2019s not what they told you on the Discovery Channel. The reality was a lot more complicated, and Galileo wasn\u2019t any martyr to science.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d have probably caucused, too. The sellout.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m feeling low tonight. I think I may be suffering from chicken soup fatigue. And the whole thing\u2019s frustrating. All winter I\u2019ve been trying to get on a workout regimen, using my Nordic Track, and every time I get to where I\u2019m starting to feel the benefits, I come down with another cold. And by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Start the democratic process without me<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}