{"id":4139,"date":"2013-04-12T11:45:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2013-04-12T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T16:46:28","slug":"do-you-like-your-herring-red-or-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4139","title":{"rendered":"Do you like your herring red or blue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Purple&#8217;s got a great change of subject for Republicans concerned about election futures (<a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2013\/04\/12\/the-d-team\">HERE<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 When there are laments about how shallow the Republican bench for 2016 is beyond Christie and Rubio, he&#8217;s got a new topic of conversation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s step onto the 2016 chessboard, no matter how premature it might seem. Republicans certainly have their problems. <strong>But focusing obsessively on them obscures the woeful state of affairs on the other side of the aisle<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or better, focusing on the woeful state on the other side of the aisle obscures the Republican problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Purple&#8217;s got a great change of subject for Republicans concerned about election futures (HERE).\u00c2\u00a0 When there are laments about how shallow the Republican bench for 2016 is beyond Christie and Rubio, he&#8217;s got a new topic of conversation: Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s step onto the 2016 chessboard, no matter how premature it might seem. Republicans certainly have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do you like your herring red or blue?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1974],"class_list":["post-4139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-herring","tag-red-herring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139","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=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}