{"id":129624,"date":"2016-02-01T17:09:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T00:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/01\/the-unthinkable-vs-the-appalling.html"},"modified":"2016-02-08T17:17:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:17:49","slug":"the-unthinkable-vs-the-appalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/01\/the-unthinkable-vs-the-appalling.html","title":{"rendered":"The Unthinkable vs the Appalling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would feel infinitely more sympathy for Ted Cruz supporters in their arguments about how horrible Donald Trump is &#8230; if they weren&#39;t instead suggesting that people should vote for Ted Cruz. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23election2016\">#election2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6246479281768292593\/6246479282478180738'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-KozQFp1hlJs\/Vq_zz-jy6YI\/AAAAAAADrQA\/9MJOAUYC4fU\/cruz-trump-2016%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/jm7LAy7gZRv'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would feel infinitely more sympathy for Ted Cruz supporters in their arguments about how horrible Donald Trump is &#8230; if they weren&#39;t instead suggesting that people should vote for Ted Cruz. #election2016 \u00a0 View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532],"tags":[909],"class_list":["post-129624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","tag-election2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cruz-trump-20165B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129664,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/07\/because-torture-is-cool-now.html","url_meta":{"origin":129624,"position":0},"title":"Because torture is cool now","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Feb-16 8:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not sure which answer was the worst:1. 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