{"id":1190,"date":"2006-04-22T17:31:21","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2006-04-22T17:31:21","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T17:31:21","slug":"know_your_oppon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the opportunity to be part of a live audience for yesterday’s Midday radio broadcast.  The guests were Newt Gingrich and Vin Weber.  I can’t be one-hundred percent sure, but Newt seems to be positioning himself for a run at the presidency in 2008.  He sure sounded like a candidate.  A few of his pearls of wisdom: Iranian-sponsored terrorists are going to nuke an American city at some point in the future, so we’d better start teaching duck-and-cover in the schools again.  And Europe is a collection of broken socialist states with stagnant economies (never mind that countries like Spain<\/A>, Ireland<\/A>, and the UK<\/A> are experiencing vigorous growth).<\/DIV>
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I had a picture of me and Newt smiling like we’re best friends, but it somehow got deleted from my nurse’s phone.  It’s probably just as well.  Something like that could cause all kinds of headaches if it leaked out during my future campaign.  <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the opportunity to be part of a live audience for yesterday’s Midday radio broadcast.  The guests were Newt Gingrich and Vin Weber.  I can’t be one-hundred percent sure, but Newt seems to be positioning himself for a run at the presidency in 2008.  He sure sounded like a candidate.  A few of his […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-jc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}