{"id":218,"date":"2008-09-26T22:42:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T02:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2011-05-26T07:54:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:54:15","slug":"so-thats-what-a-debate-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/so-thats-what-a-debate-is\/","title":{"rendered":"So THAT&#8217;s What a Debate Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a politics-free blog, but this needs to be said.  I&#8217;ve watched most of the debates since the laughable Clinton\/Dole ones, through the confusing Bush\/Gore ones, and through the pitiful Bush\/Kerry ones, and that was the first real presidential debate I&#8217;ve ever seen.  Two smart guys going at it (after a bit of prodding by Jim Awesomepants Lehrer), minimal bald-faced-lies, presenting real differences of beliefs and leadership.  Maybe this whole democracy thing actually works&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a politics-free blog, but this needs to be said. I&#8217;ve watched most of the debates since the laughable Clinton\/Dole ones, through the confusing Bush\/Gore ones, and through the pitiful Bush\/Kerry ones, and that was the first real presidential debate I&#8217;ve ever seen. Two smart guys going at it (after a bit of prodding&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"simppeli-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/so-thats-what-a-debate-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So THAT&#8217;s What a Debate Is<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AkJt-3w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}