{"id":51,"date":"2008-01-06T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/new-hampshire-primaries\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T23:00:01","slug":"new-hampshire-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/06\/new-hampshire-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Presidential election year.<\/p>\n<p>I can tell you that <em>none<\/em> of the candidates have found a friend in No\u00ebl Figart. I get knocks on my door, I get phone calls.\u00a0 I get phone calls from people. I get phone calls from machines with carefully-worded recordings that make it impossible to give my real views on a given subject.\u00a0 I get junk mail.<\/p>\n<p>One phone call?\u00a0 Okay, fine.\u00a0 You gotta get your message out to the poor saps who don&#8217;t watch the news.\u00a0 (I don&#8217;t.\u00a0 I&#8217;m an avid blogger and reader of blogs.\u00a0 Something interesting comes by, someone&#8217;ll link to it).<\/p>\n<p>But calling me three times in one day is excessive, after having someone knock on my door the day before.\u00a0 If I didn&#8217;t already dislike the politics of the Junior Sentator from New York, I&#8217;d be <strong>guarendamnteed <\/strong>to vote against Clinton after today.<\/p>\n<p>I have one question to any candidate:\u00a0 Did you vote against the war in Iraq?\u00a0 No?<\/p>\n<p>Ya don&#8217;t have my vote.\u00a0 Abstentions don&#8217;t count.\u00a0 If you voted for a war, please have the courtesy not to claim to be peace-loving and all tender hearted about the people.\u00a0 KTHXBYE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in New Hampshire. It&#8217;s a Presidential election year. I can tell you that none of the candidates have found a friend in No\u00ebl Figart. I get knocks on my door, I get phone calls.\u00a0 I get phone calls from people. I get phone calls from machines with carefully-worded recordings that make it impossible &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/06\/new-hampshire-primaries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Hampshire Primaries&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}