{"id":523,"date":"2008-09-06T11:22:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=523"},"modified":"2008-09-06T11:22:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T16:22:13","slug":"running-from-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/commentary\/running-from-reality","title":{"rendered":"Running From Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anothe excellent op-ed piece in the NY Times today. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/06\/opinion\/06herbert.html?hp\">Running from reality<\/a>,&#8221; by Rob Herbert. \u00c2\u00a0He accurately and succintly puts the Republican gobbleygook where it belongs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If there was one pre-eminent characteristic of the Republican convention this week, it was the quality of deception. Words completely lost their meaning. Reality was turned upside down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, as Joe Biden said today &#8220;What fo you ttalk about when you have nothing to say about 8 years of failed policies?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/opinion\/ssi\/images\/Toles\/c_09052008_520.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uclick.com\/feature\/08\/09\/05\/sc080905.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anothe excellent op-ed piece in the NY Times today. &#8220;Running from reality,&#8221; by Rob Herbert. \u00c2\u00a0He accurately and succintly puts the Republican gobbleygook where it belongs. If there was one pre-eminent characteristic of the Republican convention this week, it was the quality of deception. Words completely lost their meaning. Reality was turned upside down. Or, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[106,128,1449,248],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-politics","tag-disingenuous","tag-fantasy","tag-politics","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}