{"id":14,"date":"2004-11-01T22:58:34","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T03:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=14"},"modified":"2004-11-01T22:58:34","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T03:58:34","slug":"read-this-before-you-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/11\/01\/read-this-before-you-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Read this before you vote."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interviewing with the Guardian, novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uselections2004\/story\/0,13918,1340525,00.html\">Tom Wolfe thinks<\/a> that the liberal elite &#8220;hasn&#8217;t got a clue.&#8221; (Via my co-worker Steve)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe article is not overtly partisan. One could actually take a few points as reasons to vote for Kerry, and others to vote for Bush. However, it&#8217;s the insight into the minds of the elite that is most interesting, here.<\/p>\n<p>On an unrelated note, it seems likely that I&#8217;ve run out of gas on this blog. That there are two of them I&#8217;ve maintained over the last several months is clearly not helping matters, either, and now neither of them are getting attention. It also hasn&#8217;t helped that Feed Burner is reporting approximately zero readers except when I &#8220;ping&#8221; them&#8230; and that&#8217;s okay, really, but not quite what I hoped for. Finally, I&#8217;ve got another &#8220;secret&#8221; project I&#8217;m working on that&#8217;s completely unrelated to blogging and sucking away large chunks of reading time.<\/p>\n<p>Since November 2 is literally around the corner as I write this, I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s much more that I will have to say &#8211; provided the election is clear cut. Here&#8217;s hoping that it&#8217;s all over before the calendar turns to November 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interviewing with the Guardian, novelist Tom Wolfe thinks that the liberal elite &#8220;hasn&#8217;t got a clue.&#8221; (Via my co-worker Steve)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salmagundi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}