{"id":549,"date":"2004-07-30T18:42:35","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T18:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=549"},"modified":"2004-07-30T18:42:35","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T18:42:35","slug":"help_is_on_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Help Is On The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry delivered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/07\/29\/dems.kerry.transcript\/index.html\">stellar speech<\/a> last night that exceeded my own expectations.  It embodied a muscular optimism that is somewhat of a departure from traditional Democratic messages.  Kerry&#8217;s pledge to &#8220;restore honesty and credibility to the White House&#8221; is a clever spin on Bush&#8217;s campaign theme from 2000.  If Kerry\/Edwards can stay disciplined and keep pounding home a message of hope and national renewal, I like our chances in November.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m looking at the list of other Humphrey Fellows.  Quite a few lawyers, community activists, business leaders, nonprofit executives, a couple reporters.  An eclectic group, which should mean that we&#8217;ll get some good discussions and exchanges of ideas.  One of the co-directors of the Fellows Program is Tim Penny, a former congressman who ran for governor as an independent two years ago.<br \/>\nCable companies are starting to offer <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news\/posts\/20040727-4043.html\">tiered Internet service<\/a>, with premium speeds at a premium price.  Time Warner will be offering a 6mbps service for about $70\/month.  Would I pay for faster access?  It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m on BitTorrent all time downloading the latest pirated movie.  Still, it&#8217;d be sweet to have the extra speed, just because I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry delivered a stellar speech last night that exceeded my own expectations. It embodied a muscular optimism that is somewhat of a departure from traditional Democratic messages. Kerry&#8217;s pledge to &#8220;restore honesty and credibility to the White House&#8221; is a clever spin on Bush&#8217;s campaign theme from 2000. If Kerry\/Edwards can stay disciplined and <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=549' 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-549","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-8R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","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=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}