{"id":7933,"date":"2016-07-30T10:24:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7933"},"modified":"2016-07-30T10:24:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T16:24:28","slug":"houston-chronicle-endorses-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/houston-chronicle-endorses-hillary-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Chronicle endorses Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are unsettling times that require a steady hand: That&#8217;s not Donald Trump.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/opinion\/recommendations\/article\/For-Hillary-Clinton-8650345.php\">Houston Chronicle Editorial Board endorses Hillary Clinton<\/a><br \/>\nCopyright 2016: Houston Chronicle Updated 3:01\u00a0pm, Friday, July 29, 2016 <\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 8, 2016, the American people will decide between two presidential contenders who represent the starkest political choice in living memory. They will choose between one candidate with vast experience and a lifelong dedication to public service and another totally lacking in qualifications to be president. They will decide whether they prefer someone deeply familiar with the issues that are important to this nation or a person whose paper-thin, bumper-sticker proposals would be dangerous to the nation and the world if somehow they were enacted. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Chronicle editorial page does not typically endorse early in an election cycle; we prefer waiting for the campaign to play out and for issues to emerge and be addressed. We make an exception in the 2016 presidential race, because the choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is not merely political. It is something much more basic than party preference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are unsettling times that require a steady hand: That&#8217;s not Donald Trump. Houston Chronicle Editorial Board endorses Hillary Clinton Copyright 2016: Houston Chronicle Updated 3:01\u00a0pm, Friday, July 29, 2016 On Nov. 8, 2016, the American people will decide between two presidential contenders who represent the starkest political choice in living memory. They will choose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/houston-chronicle-endorses-hillary-clinton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Houston Chronicle endorses Hillary Clinton<\/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-7933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933","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=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7935,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}