{"id":40,"date":"2008-02-27T14:15:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T19:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-02-27T14:16:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T19:16:18","slug":"how-to-watch-a-political-debate-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/02\/27\/how-to-watch-a-political-debate-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Watch a Political Debate on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have discovered an excellent way to watch political debates on television.<\/p>\n<p>When anything is going on except a candidate answering a question, mute the sound.<\/p>\n<p>This simple technique let&#8217;s you avoid hearing inane questions from moderators who have no clue.  They are unable to poison your mind if you do not listen to them.<\/p>\n<p>In no case have I ever been unable to figure out the subject matter by just listening to the answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have discovered an excellent way to watch political debates on television. When anything is going on except a candidate answering a question, mute the sound. This simple technique let&#8217;s you avoid hearing inane questions from moderators who have no clue. They are unable to poison your mind if you do not listen to them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[42,4,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-40","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"tag-debates","8":"tag-politics","9":"tag-television","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}