{"id":6617,"date":"2013-11-20T10:12:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2013-11-20T10:12:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:12:28","slug":"family-as-metaphor-for-the-nation-conservatives-are-destroyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/family-as-metaphor-for-the-nation-conservatives-are-destroyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Family as metaphor for the nation: conservatives are destroyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/304501\/opinion\/sacrificing-family-ties-for-political-ambitions.html\">Sacrificing family ties for political ambitions | ABQJournal Online<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There ought to be brave Republican politicians willing to lead the party in the direction the nation is headed. But according to the conventional wisdom, winning a GOP primary means kowtowing to party\u2019s activist base \u2013 which means saying you oppose gay marriage, whatever your actual view might be.  <\/p>\n<p>Liz Cheney has shown herself to be anything but brave. The irony, however, is that she\u2019s still being attacked in Wyoming as insufficiently doctrinaire against gay marriage.  <\/p>\n<p>The Cheney sisters, once extremely close, reportedly haven\u2019t spoken since the summer. What price political ambition? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/304501\/opinion\/sacrificing-family-ties-for-political-ambitions.html\">Sacrificing family ties for political ambitions | ABQJournal Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacrificing family ties for political ambitions | ABQJournal Online There ought to be brave Republican politicians willing to lead the party in the direction the nation is headed. But according to the conventional wisdom, winning a GOP primary means kowtowing to party\u2019s activist base \u2013 which means saying you oppose gay marriage, whatever your actual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/family-as-metaphor-for-the-nation-conservatives-are-destroyers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Family as metaphor for the nation: conservatives are destroyers<\/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-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617","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=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6618,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions\/6618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}