{"id":177,"date":"2012-02-19T17:28:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T17:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patclements.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2012-02-19T17:28:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T17:28:15","slug":"united-states-politics-and-the-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"United States Politics and the Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"We don't have kids. \u00a0And I'm not sure why I care about these things. \u00a0I should plan to live a selfish life, do what benefits me for the next 30-40 years of my expected lifetime, and live it up. \u00a0I think most people will tell you I'm a liberal Democrat. But I have lots of Republican friends and family that express their ideas regularly and challenge my ideas. \u00a0I appreciate them, especially those that have thought things out carefully, and present good logical ideas. \u00a0Many of them are just plain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/?p=177\" class=\"more-link\">Keep reading [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t have kids. \u00a0And I&#8217;m not sure why I care about these things. \u00a0I should plan to live a selfish life, do what benefits me for the next 30-40 years of my expected lifetime, and live it up. \u00a0I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/?p=177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-better-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}