{"id":41,"date":"2006-01-16T12:32:59","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T17:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=41"},"modified":"2019-12-26T14:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T19:15:56","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . after a Sunday travel-and-recovery day and a morning doing real work :-)<\/p>\n<p>Found this <a href=\"http:\/\/mistersnitch.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/they-can-see-it-from-oklahoma.html\">post<\/a>, published yesterday by Mr. Snitch, on George Pataki&#8217;s presidential aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>Pataki&#8217;s handler&#8217;s have done one good thing: they&#8217;ve called for tighter headshots on his television ads. The man looks better when the top of his forehead is truncated. No warmer (you&#8217;d have to truncate a lot more to do that) but a bit more &#8220;normal guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now if they could just do something about the doohickey that he checks when he sets policy. For example, when he considers secret negotiations to put a casino into someone&#8217;s city, the doohickey&#8217;s hand should point to &#8220;don&#8217;t be an idiot!&#8221; Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/news\/07193K4V18F_news.shtml\">when he denies afterward<\/a> that he ever engaged in said negotiations, the hand should point to &#8220;Too late! Now even more people realize you&#8217;re just a craven opportunist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[tags]rochester george pataki[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . after a Sunday travel-and-recovery day and a morning doing real work :-) Found this post, published yesterday by Mr. Snitch, on George Pataki&#8217;s presidential aspirations. Pataki&#8217;s handler&#8217;s have done one good thing: they&#8217;ve called for tighter headshots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/catching-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rochester-new-york"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4947,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}