{"id":336,"date":"2004-09-24T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/so-heres-the-problem\/"},"modified":"2004-09-24T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T18:30:00","slug":"so-heres-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/24\/so-heres-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"So here&#8217;s the problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting contrast comes to light by jumping around the blogosphere (kind of like playing your CD&#8217;s on &#8220;shuffle&#8221;). <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalousdata.com\/PermaLink.aspx?gu\">Anomalous Data<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandagon.net\/mtarchives\/003496.html\">Pandagon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/comments\/im_not_at_all_surprised_by_this\" \/>Pharyngula<\/a>:  If you strip the candidates of personality and presentation, leaving only issues, you get overwhelming support for Kerry.\n<li> From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/24\/opinion\/24fish.html?ex=1253764800&#038;en=3e3a9ec3a7f7764b&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">Stanley Fish<\/a> (writing in the New York Times) via <a href=\"http:\/\/101f04.blogspot.com\/2004_09_19_101f04_archive.html#109604042819437328\">Karl Fornes<\/a>:  If you completely ignore substance and look only at the clarity with which ideas are being articulated, you get overwhelming support for Bush.<\/ul>\n<p>  The target audiences were upper-class 11-year-old schoolchildren in the first case, and University of Illinois at Chicago undergraduates in the second case, but that hardly seems to matter.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is:  Kerry&#8217;s problem would seem to be more easily correctible than Bush&#8217;s (we hope).<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting contrast comes to light by jumping around the blogosphere (kind of like playing your CD&#8217;s on &#8220;shuffle&#8221;). From Anomalous Data, via Pandagon and Pharyngula: If you strip the candidates of personality and presentation, leaving only issues, you get overwhelming support for Kerry. From Stanley Fish (writing in the New York Times) via Karl [&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-336","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\/336","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=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}