{"id":1202,"date":"2004-10-12T11:42:26","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T15:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/exactly_who_is_john_kerry\/"},"modified":"2004-10-12T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2004-10-12T15:42:26","slug":"exactly_who_is_john_kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/exactly_who_is_john_kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Exactly Who is John Kerry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a Democratic advisor on TV make an excellent point: For a couple months we&#8217;ve been listening to Bush\/Cheney &#8217;04 and all its supporters portray John Kerry as a weak-spined &#8220;flip flopper&#8221; who bends in whichever direction the wind blows.  In the last few days the GOP talking points have abruptly been revised and Kerry is now the most zealous liberal in the U.S. Senate.<br \/>\nHow are these two characterizations consistent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/exactly_who_is_john_kerry\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Exactly Who is John Kerry?\"><p>I saw a Democratic advisor on TV make an excellent point: For a couple months we&#8217;ve been listening to Bush\/Cheney &#8217;04 and all its supporters portray John Kerry as a weak-spined &#8220;flip flopper&#8221; who bends in whichever direction the wind blows. In the last few days the GOP talking points have abruptly been revised and [&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-1202","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\/1202","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=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}