{"id":535,"date":"2011-10-04T05:12:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T09:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=535"},"modified":"2011-10-04T05:12:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T09:12:52","slug":"only-half-of-republicans-know-the-meaning-of-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/only-half-of-republicans-know-the-meaning-of-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Half Of Republicans Know The Meaning Of GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a 60 Minutes\/Vanity Fair poll, just half of Republicans (51 percent) and 45 percent of Americans overall correctly identify the meaning of \u201cG.O.P.\u201d in a multiple-choice question as Grand Old Party. The second most popular choice, with 35 percent of the overall vote, was \u201cGovernment of the People.\u201d \u201cGrumpy Old People\u201d received 7 percent of the vote, \u201cGod\u2019s Own Party\u201d 3 percent, and 1 percent thought the abbreviation stood for \u201cGauntlet of Power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2011\/10\/03\/334265\/republicans-meaning-of-gop\/\">Only Half Of Republicans Know The Meaning Of GOP | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a 60 Minutes\/Vanity Fair poll, just half of Republicans (51 percent) and 45 percent of Americans overall correctly identify the meaning of \u201cG.O.P.\u201d in a multiple-choice question as Grand Old Party. The second most popular choice, with 35 percent of the overall vote, was \u201cGovernment of the People.\u201d \u201cGrumpy Old People\u201d received 7&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[26,319,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}