{"id":45,"date":"2002-11-06T18:20:57","date_gmt":"2002-11-06T18:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=45"},"modified":"2002-11-06T18:20:57","modified_gmt":"2002-11-06T18:20:57","slug":"goddamn_remembe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Goddamn. Remember the good ol&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goddamn.<br \/>\nRemember the good ol&#8217; days?  You know, the 90&#8217;s?  When you could call yourself a Democrat without a nervous laugh?  When Democratic leaders had some modicum of passion and vision?  That all seems like a dream now.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2002\/1107\/p01s01-uspo.html\">What a mess<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/?id=2073448\">As many have already pointed out<\/a>, the Dems have nobody to blame but themselves.  It seems that we&#8217;ve become the party of boring, middle-of-the-road, old, white, cautious men who have little in the way of new ideas and seem more concerned about staying in office than connecting with their constituents.<br \/>\nSo get ready for the onslaught.  More tax cuts for the wealthy.  Drilling in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/land\/wilderness\/arctic.asp\">ANWR<\/a>.  Judges who think abortion should be a capital crime.  And, oh yes, a nice little war for good measure.  How long until the Ten Commandments is posted on the door of every courthouse in the nation?<br \/>\nFuck.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s it, I&#8217;m running for the school board or city council in &#8217;04.  Who wants to be my campaign manager?<br \/>\nPeace,<br \/>\nMark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goddamn. Remember the good ol&#8217; days? You know, the 90&#8217;s? When you could call yourself a Democrat without a nervous laugh? When Democratic leaders had some modicum of passion and vision? That all seems like a dream now. What a mess. As many have already pointed out, the Dems have nobody to blame but themselves. <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=45' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-45","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-J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}