{"id":4239,"date":"2012-01-12T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2012-01-12T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:43:00","slug":"too-much-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4239","title":{"rendered":"Too much confusion&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it has been a tumultuous week in politics and the happenings are making my head swim a little, sowing the seeds of confusion while I try to make sense of it. One of the things I find quite interesting is the attack line that is being used on ole Mitt&#8230;you would think that the other repubs in the primaries are really democrats with the populist attacks on Mitt&#8217;s tenure at Bain Capital&#8230;didn&#8217;t they get the memo that capitalism=good and, to quote Mitt, &#8220;the only people that are really successful are those that are in the 1%&#8230;&#8221;? It doesn&#8217;t matter to him that the majority of the 1% started out with lots of money (like him or Huntsman), or used their government connections (like Santorum or Gingrich) to get rich and these guys truly believe that it&#8217;s okay to rail against government on one hand and then profit from government on the other hand. I truly hope this continues since it is making me grin&#8230;but I will say it doesn&#8217;t take much to amuse me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it has been a tumultuous week in politics and the happenings are making my head swim a little, sowing the seeds of confusion while I try to make sense of it. One of the things I find quite interesting is the attack line that is being used on ole Mitt&#8230;you would think that the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=4239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too much confusion&#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":[470,611,37,606],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-mitt-romney","tag-primaries","tag-republicans","tag-rick-santorum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","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=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4240,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}