{"id":483,"date":"2012-10-24T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.borg.org\/?p=483"},"modified":"2012-10-24T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:24:22","slug":"intentionally-pulling-a-biden-mark-ii-true-crime-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Intentionally &quot;Pulling a Biden&quot;, Mark II, &quot;True Crime&quot;-Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Des Moines Register lamented that they had a great phone interview with Obama (seeking their endorsement), that he was lucid and frank and enlightening (I forget the details, I am vamping, but you get the general idea), but that it was off-the-record.\u00a0 They wrote a blog posting about it, moping over the great stuff they couldn&#8217;t publish.\u00a0 Probably mentioned it in this morning&#8217;s printed paper, too.<\/p>\n<p>Then, oh, okay&#8230;the White House relented and agreed to let them publish it.<\/p>\n<p>Now everybody in Iowa will read it, with a critical eye, to see why it had been off-the-record.<\/p>\n<p>Genius!<\/p>\n<p>-kb, the Kent who admires cleverness.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2012 by Kent Borg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Des Moines Register lamented that they had a great phone interview with Obama (seeking their endorsement), that he was lucid and frank and enlightening (I forget the details, I am vamping, but you get the general idea), but that it was off-the-record.\u00a0 They wrote a blog posting about it, moping over the great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,41,88,145,216,218],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-4","tag-biden","tag-des-moines-register","tag-iowa","tag-obama","tag-off-the-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}