{"id":615,"date":"2004-09-30T17:50:05","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T17:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=615"},"modified":"2004-09-30T17:50:05","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T17:50:05","slug":"come_out_swingi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Come Out Swinging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m leaving shortly for a party to watch tonight&#8217;s <strike> debate<\/strike> <strike>presentation<\/strike> Kabuki theater.  I&#8217;m discouraged at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/election2004\/article\/0,18471,702075,00.html\">hyper-formalized structure<\/a> of the debate.  I want to see some drama, some bons mots, some heated exchanges, damnit.  Not this tightly orchestrated political music video.  Perhaps I&#8217;ll be surprised and get my wish.  Then again, you should be careful what you wish for.<br \/>\nAnd if things do go really bad, at least there will be plenty of alcohol on hand to dull the pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m leaving shortly for a party to watch tonight&#8217;s debate presentation Kabuki theater. I&#8217;m discouraged at the hyper-formalized structure of the debate. I want to see some drama, some bons mots, some heated exchanges, damnit. Not this tightly orchestrated political music video. Perhaps I&#8217;ll be surprised and get my wish. Then again, you should be <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=615' 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-615","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-9V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}