{"id":1170,"date":"2015-10-03T23:22:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T05:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2015-10-03T23:22:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T05:22:47","slug":"frontrunners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"Frontrunners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump:<\/p>\n<p>One who can&#8217;t be bothered to memorize canned answers for the most softball of questions posed by the &#8220;professional toady&#8221; class of &#8220;journalists&#8221; can&#8217;t be expected to successfully fulfill any function for which success has not been preordained through a monetary exchange. <\/p>\n<p>Bush, III, (The Revenge?):<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, though, &#8220;Jeb!&#8221; has managed to trip over his own tie midstride while walking down the well marked path to his eventual nomination. It&#8217;s rare to see a golden boy that looks so much like he&#8217;s about to stumble right off the primrose path and into the thorns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump: One who can&#8217;t be bothered to memorize canned answers for the most softball of questions posed by the &#8220;professional toady&#8221; class of &#8220;journalists&#8221; can&#8217;t be expected to successfully fulfill any function for which success has not been preordained through a monetary exchange. Bush, III, (The Revenge?): Surprisingly, though, &#8220;Jeb!&#8221; has managed to trip over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}