{"id":2321,"date":"2010-10-28T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T15:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2010-10-28T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T15:52:12","slug":"hobnob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2321","title":{"rendered":"Hobnob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/28\/the-tv-watch-access-and-the-plight-of-the-political-comedian\/?hp\">Something<\/a> I don&#39;t understand:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The country long ago stopped wondering whether a president demeans his office by appearing on a late night comedy show. The more immediate question posed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/28\/us\/politics\/28obama.html?hp\"><font color=\"#004276\">President Obama&rsquo;s appearance<\/font><\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/wed-october-27-2010\/barack-obama-pt--1\"><font color=\"#004276\">&ldquo;The Daily Show with Jon Stewart&rdquo;<\/font><\/a> on Wednesday <strong>is whether a political satirist loses credibility when hobnobbing with a sitting president<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Interviewing (fairly well I&#39;d say) isn&#39;t &quot;hobnobbing.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I don&#39;t understand: The country long ago stopped wondering whether a president demeans his office by appearing on a late night comedy show. The more immediate question posed by President Obama&rsquo;s appearance on &ldquo;The Daily Show with Jon Stewart&rdquo; on Wednesday is whether a political satirist loses credibility when hobnobbing with a sitting president. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2321\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hobnob<\/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":[85,187],"tags":[851,852,853],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reporting","category-strange-terms","tag-alessandra-stanley","tag-hobnob","tag-when-words-have-no-meaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","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=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}