{"id":1067,"date":"2008-09-19T10:14:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T15:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2008-09-19T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T15:14:28","slug":"mccain-v-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"McCain v. Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2008\/09\/spain_gaffe_wrap.php\">Matt Yglesias<\/a>, I think fairly, gives his take on the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/printout\/0,8816,1842156,00.html\">McCain v. Spain gaffe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;instead of admitting to a minor mix-up, the McCain campaign decided that in order to preserve their man\u2019s aura of omniscience they would . . . provoke a diplomatic incident with Spain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of sad that virtually all of the other alternative ways of looking at this situation portray McCain in a worse light.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to put this in the &#8220;Humor&#8221; category &#8211; but it&#8217;s too scary\/pathetic to be funny at the moment. Maybe in November &#8211; or maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Yglesias, I think fairly, gives his take on the whole McCain v. Spain gaffe: &#8230;instead of admitting to a minor mix-up, the McCain campaign decided that in order to preserve their man\u2019s aura of omniscience they would . . . provoke a diplomatic incident with Spain. It&#8217;s kind of sad that virtually all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,3,45,4],"tags":[782,781],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-foreign-policy","category-mccain","category-politics","tag-matt-yglesias","tag-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-hd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}