{"id":3314,"date":"2005-05-31T11:49:32","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T19:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/31\/elections-elections\/"},"modified":"2005-05-31T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T19:49:32","slug":"elections-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/elections-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections, elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhat&#8217;s the more significant recent election, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/washpost\/20050530\/ts_washpost\/france_rejects_european_constitution;_ylt=AjCoIQ1LFcYx0PjZMjoSpvx34T0D;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl\">France&#8217;s  rejection of the European constitution,<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/afp\/20050530\/ts_afp\/lebanonvote_050530164547\">Beirut&#8217;s election of Saad Hariri<\/a> and his slate to lead the new democratic government?<\/p>\n<p>France gets more play, but I&#8217;d go with Lebanon, one of the immediate consequences of the Bush policies in the Middle East.  Besides, countries like Lebanon are the future, and France is the past.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the more significant recent election, France&#8217;s rejection of the European constitution, or Beirut&#8217;s election of Saad Hariri and his slate to lead the new democratic government? France gets more play, but I&#8217;d go with Lebanon, one of the immediate consequences of the Bush policies in the Middle East. Besides, countries like Lebanon are the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/elections-elections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elections, elections&#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-3314","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-Rs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","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=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}