{"id":231,"date":"2003-10-01T12:53:53","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T12:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=231"},"modified":"2003-10-01T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2003-10-01T12:53:53","slug":"plamebait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Plamebait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone needs to come up with another name for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/09\/30\/wilson.cia\/index.html\">emerging scandal <\/a>surrounding the White House besides Plamegate.  Why are we compelled to apply the -gate suffix to any kind of political malfeasance?  Watergate is so 30 years ago but yet our metaphors are still trapped in the &#8217;70s.<br \/>\nAnd here&#8217;s the President in all of his eloquent grandeur:  &#8220;Leaks of classified information are bad things.&#8221;<br \/>\nWell, yes, they are.  And the sky is blue, but I knew that already too.  Poor Bush.  You just know that he doesn&#8217;t have the kind of subtle ruthlessness necessary for deception and backstabbing.  But he&#8217;s surrounded himself with plenty of sharks who wouldn&#8217;t hesitate to sell out their own mothers if it suited their nefarious designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone needs to come up with another name for the emerging scandal surrounding the White House besides Plamegate. Why are we compelled to apply the -gate suffix to any kind of political malfeasance? Watergate is so 30 years ago but yet our metaphors are still trapped in the &#8217;70s. And here&#8217;s the President in all <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=231' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-231","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-3J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}