{"id":116,"date":"2002-06-11T01:34:18","date_gmt":"2002-06-10T20:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/116"},"modified":"2002-06-11T01:34:18","modified_gmt":"2002-06-10T20:34:18","slug":"ok-look-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/116","title":{"rendered":"Ok, look. I guess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, look.  I guess I&#8217;d call myself generally conservative but mostly a libertarian.  I don&#8217;t feel that the government has any business meddling in my body, my mind, or my private property.  If pressed on voting Democrat vs. Republican, I can usually be counted on to vote with the GOP since I&#8217;m a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/story.hts\/front\/1445856\">stories like these<\/a> that make me want to buy my own little island and flip everyone else the bird.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, we were at a restaurant seated next to Sen. Wentworth once.  Nobody could get service from the waitstaff for some damn reason, but instead of pulling rank or getting loud, Sen. Wentworth ran up to the counter and helped himself to more iced tea and chips.  Compare this to the time we had brunch in the same restaurant as Ann Richards, completely across the room from her, and she was so damned loud it was like she was right next to us.  Class versus none.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, look. I guess I&#8217;d call myself generally conservative but mostly a libertarian. I don&#8217;t feel that the government has any business meddling in my body, my mind, or my private property. If pressed on voting Democrat vs. Republican, I can usually be counted on to vote with the GOP since I&#8217;m a strong supporter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}