{"id":5923,"date":"2004-06-28T19:42:43","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T02:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/28\/the-call.html"},"modified":"2004-06-28T19:42:43","modified_gmt":"2004-06-29T02:42:43","slug":"the_call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/28\/the_call.html","title":{"rendered":"The Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow!  Imagine my surprise when I picked up the phone and <em>John Kerry was on the line<\/em>, the Man himself, introducing himself, and talking directly to me, just one hapless citizen (and registered Democrat) here in the great state of Colorado.  Imagine!.  I tried to get a word in edge-wise, ask some questions, inquire about some issues &#8212; but &#8230; well, he just wouldn&#8217;t stop talking, and telling me to press 1 on my touch-tone phone, over and over again.  .<\/p>\n<p>I eventually had to hang up to get him to stop talking.  Too bad.  Might have been an enlightening conversation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! 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