{"id":955,"date":"2008-10-25T07:44:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T11:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2008-10-25T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T14:20:00","slug":"a-modest-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"A modest link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oftentimes I despair over the quality of reasoning one finds on the typical op-ed page.&nbsp; But then I read <a href=\"http:\/\/jonswift.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/great-moments-in-election-year-blogging.html\">this<\/a>, and I am reminded of how bad things could be.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Update.&nbsp; I forgot to mention this somewhat related matter.&nbsp; I actually for the first time in my life got polled for a presidential election.&nbsp; Aside from approve\/disapprove questions regarding our current leader, the computer voice asked all sorts of questions about the current candidates.&nbsp; When it got to Obama, it asked at least four questions about William Ayers, including this one: &quot;What roll will William Ayers play in an Obama administration?&quot;&nbsp; Not sure what the sense of that was. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oftentimes I despair over the quality of reasoning one finds on the typical op-ed page.&nbsp; But then I read this, and I am reminded of how bad things could be.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Update.&nbsp; I forgot to mention this somewhat related matter.&nbsp; I actually for the first time in my life got polled for a presidential election.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=955\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A modest link<\/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":[367,366],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-conservative-blogosphere","tag-jon-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","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=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}