{"id":1640,"date":"2009-10-07T06:53:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2009-10-07T06:53:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T12:53:05","slug":"straw-man-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Straw man factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quote of the day:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a heated and sometimes vitriolic debate Monday night, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) repeatedly called out former Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey for lying about health care reform. He said debating her was like &quot;debating a pyromaniac in a straw man factory,&quot; prompting intense and immediate reaction from the audience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#39;m not sure what that means, but you can watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/10\/weiner-and-mccaughey-go-head-to-head-in-health-care-debate.php?ref=fpb\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote of the day: In a heated and sometimes vitriolic debate Monday night, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) repeatedly called out former Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey for lying about health care reform. He said debating her was like &quot;debating a pyromaniac in a straw man factory,&quot; prompting intense and immediate reaction from the audience. I&#39;m not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1640\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Straw man factory<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}