{"id":9048,"date":"2018-10-23T16:08:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9048"},"modified":"2018-10-23T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:08:14","slug":"and-the-prize-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9048","title":{"rendered":"And the prize goes to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois governor Bruce Rauner is running what is surely this sad season&#8217;s most tasteless campaign commercial.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_dxMDnkmS-4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>At a stroke he triggers the Evangelical Right&#8217;s hatred of same-sex marriage and predicts a disaster if his opponent is elected, and not-too-subtly suggests an &#8220;unholy union&#8221; on the part of the opposition.  I suppose there&#8217;s a sort of perverse genius evidenced by this advertisement, but it&#8217;s a genius turned to corrupt purposes and deserves to backfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois governor Bruce Rauner is running what is surely this sad season&#8217;s most tasteless campaign commercial. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9048\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9050,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048\/revisions\/9050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}