{"id":318,"date":"2002-03-11T07:11:54","date_gmt":"2002-03-11T14:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/03\/out-of-touch\/"},"modified":"2002-03-11T07:11:54","modified_gmt":"2002-03-11T14:11:54","slug":"out-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/11\/out-of-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; &#8220;Thus, recent skirmishes in the nation&#8217;s capital &#8212; sophisticated word games that have raised &#8220;spin&#8221; to a new level &#8212; give Americans yet a new reason to reach for the anti-nausea tonic. As politicians debate whether Congress and the president are co-equals in government and compete for &#8220;most patriotic&#8221; in the superlative sweepstakes, we are reminded once again that politics knows no shame.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/kathleen\/parker.html\">Kathleen Parker<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; &#8220;Thus, recent skirmishes in the nation&#8217;s capital &#8212; sophisticated word games that have raised &#8220;spin&#8221; to a new level &#8212; give Americans yet a new reason to reach for the anti-nausea tonic. As politicians debate whether Congress and the president are co-equals in government and compete for &#8220;most patriotic&#8221; in the superlative sweepstakes, we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/11\/out-of-touch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Out-of-touch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-58","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}