{"id":500,"date":"2004-01-19T14:56:55","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T19:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/strange_bedfellows\/"},"modified":"2004-01-19T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2004-01-19T19:56:55","slug":"strange_bedfellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/strange_bedfellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/01\/19\/elec04.prez.edwards.kucinich\/index.html\">this<\/a> coming:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democratic presidential candidates John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich have struck a deal to support each other should one candidate fail to draw the minimum support needed to compete in Monday night&#8217;s Iowa caucuses, Edwards campaign sources said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kind of strange in that the two don&#8217;t seem like a natural ideological match.<br \/>\nI doubt it will have a significant impact on the contest tonight.  A candidate&#8217;s supporters aren&#8217;t necessarily going to follow guidance from above.  And even if they <i>are<\/i> inclined to do so, word of this &#8220;deal&#8221; is coming out so late that some supporters may not even hear about it.<br \/>\nStill, in a race as close as Iowa is purported to be, this kind of thing could make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/strange_bedfellows\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Strange Bedfellows\"><p>I didn&#8217;t see this coming: Democratic presidential candidates John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich have struck a deal to support each other should one candidate fail to draw the minimum support needed to compete in Monday night&#8217;s Iowa caucuses, Edwards campaign sources said. Kind of strange in that the two don&#8217;t seem like a natural ideological [&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-500","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\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}