{"id":1906,"date":"2008-10-05T17:09:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T22:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/10\/05\/sophisticated-political-commentary-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2008-10-05T17:09:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T22:09:42","slug":"sophisticated-political-commentary-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/05\/sophisticated-political-commentary-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophisticated Political Commentary of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/10\/the_candidates_as_trains.php\">Greg Laden<\/a>, apparently originating <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.fark.com\/cgi\/fark\/comments.pl?IDLink=3920656\">at Fark.com<\/a>:  the candidates as trains.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/electiontrains1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"475\" class=\"center size-full wp-image-1949\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Greg Laden, apparently originating at Fark.com: the candidates as trains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}