{"id":576,"date":"2004-11-03T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:31","slug":"faith_in_the_am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/03\/faith_in_the_am\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith in the American public is increasingly questionable."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if Kerry does win the Presidential election (and it&#8217;s not looking as if this is all that likely, although I suppose there&#8217;s always a chance), the fact that Bush has done so well is just a continued indictment against the intelligence of such a respectively large percentage of the American public.  I find it unbelievable that so many people could honestly think that Bush is good for them or anybody else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Kerry just admitted defeat, and Bush is back in office for another 4 years.  Somehow I&#8217;m not surprised.  But I will say that my personal opinion of our neighbour just dropped down several more notches because of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if Kerry does win the Presidential election (and it&#8217;s not looking as if this is all that likely, although I suppose there&#8217;s always a chance), the fact that Bush has done so well is just a continued indictment against the intelligence of such a respectively large percentage of the American public. I find it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/03\/faith_in_the_am\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Faith in the American public is increasingly questionable.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}