{"id":44708,"date":"2014-08-30T18:49:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T00:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/30\/this-is-what-american-politics.html"},"modified":"2014-08-30T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T00:49:48","slug":"this-is-what-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/30\/this-is-what-american-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"This is what American politics…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is what American politics has come to? RT @Marmel<\/a>: Yeah, “Suitgate” is stupid but this is still sort of spot on, http:\/\/t.co\/anWYMMH1do<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is what American politics has come to? RT @Marmel: Yeah, “Suitgate” is stupid but this is still sort of spot on, http:\/\/t.co\/anWYMMH1do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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":[78],"tags":[334],"class_list":["post-44708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","tag-tweet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131864,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/american-politics.html","url_meta":{"origin":44708,"position":0},"title":"American Politics","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Oct-16 2:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Heh. 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