{"id":18426,"date":"2019-06-14T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=18426"},"modified":"2019-06-14T13:25:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T17:25:23","slug":"i-like-our-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=18426","title":{"rendered":"I like our candidates&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know, I get damn tired of writing about the idiot&#8217;s stupidity and criminality all the time that I thought I&#8217;d do a little positive stuff today on our candidates and what I&#8217;ve seen so far, I think we&#8217;ve got a pretty good group and the vision and policy that I hear every day from them almost makes the forget what damage that the repubs are doing every day&#8230;almost&#8230;whenever I hear any of our people talk, I am reminded that there are adults in politics who really want to try to make the US a better place for all of us&#8230;and they have real policy proposals to implement these ideas&#8230;like better healthcare for all, more taxes on the rich and corporations, voting rights for all, the end of gerrymandering, getting money out of politics, repealing Citizens United&#8230;you get the idea&#8230;everything the repubs have been working for to rig the system, our candidates want to do away with. This, along with humane treatment of asylum seekers should put a dagger through the &#8220;there&#8217;s no difference between the parties&#8221; nonsense that people have in their heads for some reason like they just aren&#8217;t paying attention. So, I am going to try to let myself be a little hopeful instead of outraged all day every day&#8230;I know the outrage is warranted with what trump and his cronies are doing to this country, but I need a frickin break&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know, I get damn tired of writing about the idiot&#8217;s stupidity and criminality all the time that I thought I&#8217;d do a little positive stuff today on our candidates and what I&#8217;ve seen so far, I think we&#8217;ve got a pretty good group and the vision and policy that I hear every day from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=18426\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I like our candidates&#8230;<\/span> <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":[10],"tags":[2261,2093],"class_list":["post-18426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-democratic-presidential-candidates","tag-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18428,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426\/revisions\/18428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}