{"id":4907,"date":"2008-09-10T20:06:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T03:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/palin-faces-the-firing-squad\/"},"modified":"2008-09-10T20:06:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T03:06:19","slug":"palin-faces-the-firing-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/10\/palin-faces-the-firing-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Palin faces the firing squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tObama still has a healthy lead in the electoral college, which will only increase as Palin has to speak in public without a script. Nothing to worry about, the McCain campaign can&#8217;t keep her in seclusion forever.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s supposed to do an interview with Charlie Gibson tomorrow, but there are apparently all kinds of off-limits topics, like the pregnant daughter. That&#8217;s an interesting topic alongside Palin&#8217;s cutting back the funding for a teen mother&#8217;s center in Alaska, of course. And I take it there are similar issues around funding for special-needs babies as well. And I&#8217;d love to know why she left a church where people speak in tongues while trying to get elected governor, and why she lost her first attempt to win statewide office as Lt. Governor.<br \/>\n<cite>Originally posted as a <a href=\"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/electoral-math\/#comment-2277022\">comment<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/people\/BubbaDude\/\">Richard Bennett<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\">Broadband Politics<\/a> using <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\">Disqus<\/a>.<\/cite>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama still has a healthy lead in the electoral college, which will only increase as Palin has to speak in public without a script. Nothing to worry about, the McCain campaign can&#8217;t keep her in seclusion forever. She&#8217;s supposed to do an interview with Charlie Gibson tomorrow, but there are apparently all kinds of off-limits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/10\/palin-faces-the-firing-squad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Palin faces the firing squad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-4907","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-1h9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907","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=4907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}