{"id":212,"date":"2008-03-02T08:42:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T13:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/02\/meaningless-opinions\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T12:39:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T17:39:46","slug":"meaningless-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/02\/meaningless-opinions\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaningless Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, The New York Times proves how relevant and in touch it is with the country. Today, they ran an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/02\/opinion\/02candidatesintro.html\" title=\"What the Losers Have to Say\" target=\"_blank\">editorial which gives voice to eight former presidential candidates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to click through to a single one of these. I&#8217;m not saying that the issues aren&#8217;t important. I am saying that none of these people has anything to say which can possibly affect this election.<\/p>\n<p>Between the eight of them, they probably sewed up 37 delegates (or was that <em>votes<\/em>?), so clearly no one cared what they had to say before. (No, I didn&#8217;t actually check how many delegates they had collectively, it was a <em>joke<\/em>, that was directionally accurate&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness we have The New York Times to ensure that also-rans get a megaphone to scream that their opinions are still relevant, when millions of people have made it clear that they are not.<\/p>\n<p>All we need is hope and change, we don&#8217;t need no stinking issues. Don&#8217;t make us think, let us dream!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, The New York Times proves how relevant and in touch it is with the country. Today, they ran an editorial which gives voice to eight former presidential candidates. I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to click through to a single one of these. I&#8217;m not saying that the issues aren&#8217;t important. I am saying that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,2,89],"tags":[1371,1372],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-2","category-politics","tag-comedy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}