{"id":470,"date":"2004-10-22T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/nasty-politics\/"},"modified":"2004-10-22T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T18:45:00","slug":"nasty-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/nasty-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasty politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Nasty politics? Puhleez! Get a historic grip. | csmonitor.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christiansciencemonitor.com\/2004\/1021\/p09s01-coop.html\">Nasty politics? Puhleez! Get a historic grip. | csmonitor.com<\/a> By William Schambra<\/p>\n<p>US politics is exasperating &#8211; always has been. But through the calumny and distortion, we&#8217;ve selected decent, if not always excellent, presidents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s step on them!&#8221; exhorts the early 1950s Republican election poster hanging in my basement. It features the party&#8217;s pachyderm with his foot planted squarely on two squirming figures, one a mustachioed Stalin look-alike labeled &#8220;Communism,&#8221; the other a spectacled, briefcase-toting bureaucrat labeled &#8220;New Dealism.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasty politics? Puhleez! Get a historic grip. | csmonitor.com By William Schambra US politics is exasperating &#8211; always has been. But through the calumny and distortion, we&#8217;ve selected decent, if not always excellent, presidents. &#8220;Let&#8217;s step on them!&#8221; exhorts the early 1950s Republican election poster hanging in my basement. It features the party&#8217;s pachyderm with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/nasty-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nasty politics?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}