{"id":2035,"date":"2008-08-23T14:42:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T14:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2008-08-23T14:42:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T14:42:59","slug":"running_mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2035","title":{"rendered":"Running Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"

What will the political blogosphere do now that it can’t speculate on Obama’s veep pick<\/a>? Oh, sure, McCain still has his pick to make, but that’s like waiting to discover what’s on the clearance rack at JC Penney’s. I don’t think either veep candidate will do much to change the final outcome of the election, but Biden is a good choice. He’s brilliant, solidly progressive, and he might be able to teach Barack a thing or two about making one-on-one connections with voters. He just needs to keep his mouth in check. <\/p>\n

Oops, Obama just introduced Biden as the next President of the United States. Way to feed into our subconscious jitters, Barack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What will the political blogosphere do now that it can’t speculate on Obama’s veep pick? Oh, sure, McCain still has his pick to make, but that’s like waiting to discover what’s on the clearance rack at JC Penney’s. I don’t think either veep candidate will do much to change the final outcome of the election, […]<\/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-2035","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-wP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","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=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}