{"id":3199,"date":"2011-09-27T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2011-09-27T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T03:39:08","slug":"lead-with-a-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3199","title":{"rendered":"Lead with a contradiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2011\/09\/26\/herman-cains-magic-moment\">An eye-catching first line<\/a> has some internal tension to it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What Herman Cain did in Orlando this weekend was both completely unexpected and entirely predictable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Erm. That can&#039;t be true. That is, unless, &#039;predictable&#039; means &#039;happens&#039;. And that just means that Republicans are either &#039;unpredictable&#039; or their behavior is &#039;unexpected.&#039;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eye-catching first line has some internal tension to it. What Herman Cain did in Orlando this weekend was both completely unexpected and entirely predictable. Erm. That can&#039;t be true. That is, unless, &#039;predictable&#039; means &#039;happens&#039;. And that just means that Republicans are either &#039;unpredictable&#039; or their behavior is &#039;unexpected.&#039;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}