{"id":2069,"date":"2008-09-24T19:09:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T19:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2008-09-24T19:09:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T19:09:25","slug":"unexcused_absen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2069","title":{"rendered":"Unexcused Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look, Senator McCain, I had plans for Friday evening. And those plans involved me and a friend getting together to watch the debate, down a couple beers (well, I’m actually more the sipping type, but that’s beside the point), and mock your responses MST3K-style. But apparently, you’re of the opinion that we’ll wake up to mile-long soup lines across America if you don’t hustle back to Washington to save the day<\/a>. Well, that’s just great, but the local deli isn’t going to take back this cheese plate I picked up. <\/p>\n

I checked Wikipedia and, as far as I can tell, presidential candidates of the past continued their campaigns in the midst of wars, depressions, and other calamities. So how about dropping this weak attempt at mavericky-ness and showing up as planned? The republic will endure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look, Senator McCain, I had plans for Friday evening. And those plans involved me and a friend getting together to watch the debate, down a couple beers (well, I’m actually more the sipping type, but that’s beside the point), and mock your responses MST3K-style. But apparently, you’re of the opinion that we’ll wake up to […]<\/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-2069","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-xn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","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=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}