{"id":2365,"date":"2008-11-18T09:13:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T14:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/is_the_primary\/"},"modified":"2008-11-18T09:13:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T14:13:36","slug":"is_the_primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/11\/is_the_primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Primary Over Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atrios, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2008_11_09_archive.html#7916117563564450249\">the media&#8217;s speculation regarding the future Obama cabinet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of it is even more useless than campaign horse race journalism. If they must do it they could at least provide more useful information about the people they&#8217;re speculating about, but instead it&#8217;s all just a soap opera.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I assume he&#8217;s talking about the Senator Clinton for Secretary of State rumors, which have dominated TV news this week.  And I agree&#8211;it would be nice for pundits to focus on what Clinton (or any other candidate) brings to the table for a specific position, rather than an endless rehash of the political power play by play.<br \/>\nInstead, the potential appointment is viewed merely as a primary postscript.  If I received a dollar for every time a TV talker said &#8220;team of rivals&#8221; or &#8220;keep your friends close and your enemies closer,&#8221; I&#8217;d get a nice check this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/11\/is_the_primary\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Is The Primary Over Yet?\"><p>Atrios, on the media&#8217;s speculation regarding the future Obama cabinet: Most of it is even more useless than campaign horse race journalism. If they must do it they could at least provide more useful information about the people they&#8217;re speculating about, but instead it&#8217;s all just a soap opera. I assume he&#8217;s talking about the [&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-2365","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\/2365","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=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}