{"id":3240,"date":"2005-04-27T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T20:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/04\/27\/all-things\/"},"modified":"2005-04-27T12:54:29","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T20:54:29","slug":"all-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/all-things\/","title":{"rendered":"All things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTo be successful in national politics, it&#8217;s necessary to be &#8220;all things to all people&#8221;, at least to some extent. And in the era of instant communication it&#8217;s hard to say one thing to one group and a different thing to another as politicians have traditionally done. So it&#8217;s become difficult to appeal to diverse groups.<\/p>\n<p>But technology gives us the means to solve this problem, as Karl Rove has divined. I think I&#8217;ve cracked the code on this as well, but I don&#8217;t want to go into detail just yet.<\/p>\n<p>How would you package a politician so that he (or she) appealed to diverse constituencies? You might have a better idea.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be successful in national politics, it&#8217;s necessary to be &#8220;all things to all people&#8221;, at least to some extent. And in the era of instant communication it&#8217;s hard to say one thing to one group and a different thing to another as politicians have traditionally done. So it&#8217;s become difficult to appeal to diverse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/all-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All things&#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-3240","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-Qg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","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=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}