{"id":50843,"date":"2019-03-05T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=50843"},"modified":"2019-03-05T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:04:17","slug":"welcome-to-the-fun-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2019\/03\/welcome-to-the-fun-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Fun House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.\u00a0 politics are like a fun house mirror. No one ends up looking handsome.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why people have to be careful about making accusations without evidence. About criticizing the players as well as the results. It&#8217;s tough to see what is happening in that warped reflection.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say we shouldn&#8217;t have high standards and high expectations. It is a reason to put criticism and investigation of the operation of the political system far ahead of personal recriminations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.\u00a0 politics are like a fun house mirror. No one ends up looking handsome.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why people have to be careful about making accusations without evidence. About criticizing the players as well as the results. It&#8217;s tough to see what is happening in that warped reflection. That&#8217;s not to say we shouldn&#8217;t have high&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,2090,22,68,2091],"tags":[498,2100,1134,2098,246,2099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50843"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50845,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50843\/revisions\/50845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}