{"id":18,"date":"2006-03-12T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2006-10-27T08:05:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T12:05:06","slug":"114221087115617713","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"114221087115617713"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afterthought:<br \/>\nMaybe the terrorists aren&#8217;t as scary as our own state&#8217;s political bloggers.   To wit, <a href=\"http:\/\/voluntarilyconservative.blogspot.com\/\">VOLuntarily Conservative<\/a> reported on the straw poll for the 2008 Presidential race:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1427 votes were cast. Out of his vote total, 81.7% of Frist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s votes came from Tennessee voters. Out of all voters from Tennessee, 42% chose a candidate besides Senator Frist.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/tnpoliticsblog.com\/index.php\">Tennessee Politics<\/a> blog had a decidedly different tone, stating that Frist was &#8220;tepidly received.&#8221;  Of course, that post was made before the results of the straw poll were in, so perhaps they should have been kinder&#8230; the whole hindsight thing, you know.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not much better at predicting political races, but I&#8217;ve learned to stay away from making forecasts unless it&#8217;s qualified as a WAG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afterthought: Maybe the terrorists aren&#8217;t as scary as our own state&#8217;s political bloggers. To wit, VOLuntarily Conservative reported on the straw poll for the 2008 Presidential race: 1427 votes were cast. Out of his vote total, 81.7% of Frist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s votes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=18\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}