{"id":483,"date":"2008-07-18T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/18\/food-for-thought\/"},"modified":"2008-07-18T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T04:45:00","slug":"food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/18\/food-for-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an illuminating article on American politics.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years ago, we elected Bush, an oil executive, and Cheney, a military contractor.&nbsp; In those eight years, oil prices, as well as what we are paying (even WITH open-bid contracts) for military supplies, have skyrocketed.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Republicans are running the husband of a beer heiress.&nbsp; Eight years of McCain and we&#8217;ll be paying $35 a six-pack&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>America can&#8217;t take any more of this.&nbsp; What&#8217;s next, a paper executive?&nbsp; Intel&#8217;s CEO?<\/p>\n<p>I predict the big news will be air filters in 8 years.&nbsp; If we&#8217;re still around to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an illuminating article on American politics. Eight years ago, we elected Bush, an oil executive, and Cheney, a military contractor.&nbsp; In those eight years, oil prices, as well as what we are paying (even WITH open-bid contracts) for military supplies, have skyrocketed. Now the Republicans are running the husband of a beer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}