{"id":3176,"date":"2012-03-07T19:12:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T01:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2012-03-07T19:12:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T01:12:01","slug":"how-the-mighty-have-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3176","title":{"rendered":"How The Mighty Have Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s Super Tuesday contests failed to bring the Republican nomination race to a definitive end. That&#8217;s reason enough to cheer, but the mood became downright celebratory here on The 19th \u00a0Floor when word came that Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich lost a primary election to a Democratic opponent. To understand why this brings me such joy, I direct newer readers <a href=\"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=250\">here<\/a>. Even after nine years, I can&#8217;t discuss the incident without getting a little :sniff: emotional. I suppose I&#8217;ll never completely recover from the trauma, but at least I can take consolation in the fact he&#8217;ll soon be spending his days puttering around in his garage while his inexplicably hot wife grudgingly fixes him yet another grilled cheese sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>Until he gets his own MSNBC show.<\/p>\n<p>:shakes fist: KUCINICH!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s Super Tuesday contests failed to bring the Republican nomination race to a definitive end. That&#8217;s reason enough to cheer, but the mood became downright celebratory here on The 19th \u00a0Floor when word came that Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich lost a primary election to a Democratic opponent. To understand why this brings me such <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3176' 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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Pe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","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=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}