{"id":9922,"date":"2009-08-25T16:42:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T16:42:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-25T16:42:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T16:42:16","slug":"not-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/25\/not-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Good Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fear is a powerful force in governing. It can cause politicians to say things that aren&#8217;t true (&#8220;We need to be more tough, to make us safer!&#8221;) and to avoid facing difficult choices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=y7xvvagspixfd9\">http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/a&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And to those Democrats who run from this decision due to their statewide electoral ambitions, a simple reminder. You are a Democrat. You must go through the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear is a powerful force in governing. It can cause politicians to say things that aren&#8217;t true (&#8220;We need to be more tough, to make us safer!&#8221;) and to avoid facing difficult choices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=y7xvvagspixfd9\">http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/a&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And to those Democrats who run from this decision due to their statewide electoral ambitions, a simple reminder. You are a Democrat. You must go through the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2A2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}