{"id":16939,"date":"2018-08-05T13:59:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16939"},"modified":"2018-08-05T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T18:59:49","slug":"an-important-piece-of-political-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/05\/an-important-piece-of-political-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"An Important Piece Of Political Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em><strong>WaPo&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/early-lead\/wp\/2018\/08\/02\/sports-broadcaster-dale-hansen-a-fat-white-guy-in-a-deep-red-state-is-an-unlikely-liberal-hero\/?utm_term=.86abf3f80f8b&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with North Texas sportscaster and occasional commentator Dale Hansen:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"32\"><strong>So how about now? Will you vote in the midterm elections?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"33\">I\u2019m going to start again. Because I was wrong. I wanted the perfect candidate, and I didn\u2019t want to be the guy who voted for the lesser of two evils. But I\u2019ve learned that when you don\u2019t vote for the lesser of two evils, sometimes the more evil guy wins.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"33\">In winner-takes-all elections, this is the message that every voter needs to consider.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"33\">And I loved the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WaPo&#8217;s interview with North Texas sportscaster and occasional commentator Dale Hansen: So how about now? Will you vote in the midterm elections? I\u2019m going to start again. Because I was wrong. I wanted the perfect candidate, and I didn\u2019t want to be the guy who voted for the lesser \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/05\/an-important-piece-of-political-wisdom\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16941,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16939\/revisions\/16941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}