{"id":299,"date":"2004-10-29T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/the-blogosphere-is-insufficiently-cynical\/"},"modified":"2004-10-29T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T02:31:00","slug":"the-blogosphere-is-insufficiently-cynical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/29\/the-blogosphere-is-insufficiently-cynical\/","title":{"rendered":"The blogosphere is insufficiently cynical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I just haven&#8217;t noticed, but has anyone pointed out the most obvious possibility?  The <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/ID\/6363306\/\">Bin Laden tape<\/a> <i>is<\/i> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2108884\/\">October Surprise<\/a>. Think about it: a good October Surprise will make people rally around the incumbent, without having any obvious fingerprints of political maneuvering all over it. And we don&#8217;t know where Al-Jazeera got the tape from. Karl Rove is as likely a source as any.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I just haven&#8217;t noticed, but has anyone pointed out the most obvious possibility? The Bin Laden tape is the October Surprise. Think about it: a good October Surprise will make people rally around the incumbent, without having any obvious fingerprints of political maneuvering all over it. And we don&#8217;t know where Al-Jazeera got the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}