{"id":1042,"date":"2004-07-30T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/president_kerry\/"},"modified":"2004-07-30T00:00:30","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T04:00:30","slug":"president_kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/president_kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All said, a great speech.  A little rushed, a bit long, and the sweating was unfortunate.  But it was the best I&#8217;ve seen Kerry this campaign season.  He did a good job of sharing his story and his values as well as making the case for why we should elect him to lead the country into the future.<br \/>\nI thought it a fitting conclusion to what I view as a preemptive convention.  The Democrats took the supposed Republican ammunition (&#8220;strong leadership&#8221;, war, veterans, the flag, faith, values, optimism) and pointed it right back at them.  To use a football comparison, it&#8217;s like a team who&#8217;s read all week how they won&#8217;t be able to move the ball on offense completing a long pass the first play from scrimmage to make a &#8220;take that&#8221; statement.<br \/>\nThree months to go and a lot can happen, but Kerry is off to a strong start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/president_kerry\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to President Kerry\"><p>All said, a great speech. A little rushed, a bit long, and the sweating was unfortunate. But it was the best I&#8217;ve seen Kerry this campaign season. He did a good job of sharing his story and his values as well as making the case for why we should elect him to lead the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}