{"id":1283,"date":"2006-07-10T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2006-07-10T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T05:45:00","slug":"i-wish-i-had-written-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/i-wish-i-had-written-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":"I wish I had written this one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one of those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinkyfriedman.com\/2006\/07\/sa_express_ken_rodriguez_on_ki_1.html\">columns<\/A> I read and think, &#8220;Man. I wish I had written that.&#8221;<Blockquote>Well, some people thought the signature differential was significant. Just ask the campaign of Chris &#8220;Will-Somebody-Please-Take-Me-Seriously?&#8221; Bell.<br \/>\n&#8220;Carole Strayhorn cannot possibly win this race,&#8221; said Bell spokesman Jason Stanford. &#8220;And having fewer signatures than a novelty country singer only proves my point.&#8221;<br \/>\nGrandma appears to be losing her bite. If the trend continues, she could be \u00e2\u20ac\u201d yikes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d all gums.<br \/>\nGrandma, of course, dismisses early polls. &#8220;It&#8217;s a two-person race,&#8221; she says.<br \/>\nInteresting. That&#8217;s what Kinky Friedman says. That&#8217;s what Chris Bell says. That&#8217;s what Rick Perry says.<br \/>\nStop the presses. Somebody is lying.<br \/>\nPerry says the race is between him and Bell (even though the Rasmussen poll shows Bell in fourth).<br \/>\nBell agrees with Perry (even though far more Texans have heard of Bigfoot than Bell. Chris who?)<br \/>\nThen there&#8217;s Kinky, who says the race is between him and apathy (even though more people view Kinky very unfavorably, 26 percent, than any other candidate).<br \/>\nGrandma insists she&#8217;s not worried. But she should be. In the time it takes to pronounce her name, Kinky creeps closer to Perry and gets a free chunk of airtime on 60 Minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one of those columns I read and think, &#8220;Man. I wish I had written that.&#8221;Well, some people thought the signature differential was significant. Just ask the campaign of Chris &#8220;Will-Somebody-Please-Take-Me-Seriously?&#8221; Bell. &#8220;Carole Strayhorn cannot possibly win this race,&#8221; said Bell spokesman Jason Stanford. &#8220;And having fewer signatures than a novelty country singer only proves &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/i-wish-i-had-written-this-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I wish I had written this one<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-kH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}