{"id":20795,"date":"2015-01-20T22:14:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T04:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=20795"},"modified":"2015-01-20T22:14:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T04:14:58","slug":"an-alternative-to-the-response-to-the-state-of-the-union-address-must-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/20\/an-alternative-to-the-response-to-the-state-of-the-union-address-must-see\/","title":{"rendered":"An alternative to the response to the state of the union address. Must see."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the State of the Union Address, and it was great.  Not nearly enough on climate change, but otherwise it was great. I did not watch the response.  I heard it was not great.<\/p>\n<p>But then <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClaraJeffery\">Clara Jeffery of Mother Jones<\/a> asked on twitter if they, the responses, are ever great.  So I went and looked through a few old ones and I found one that YOU MUST NOT MISS.  Watch the whole thing including the credits and the bit with Brokaw at the end.  Pay special attention to the hair.<\/p>\n<p>So, without further delay, the Democratic Response to Reagan&#8217;s 1985 State of the Union Address, a veritable Variety Show of Politics, hosted by the rising star Bill Clinton, Governor of Arkansas.  Music by Genesis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pNQD0v0SLbs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the State of the Union Address, and it was great. Not nearly enough on climate change, but otherwise it was great. I did not watch the response. I heard it was not great. But then Clara Jeffery of Mother Jones asked on twitter if they, the responses, are ever great. So I went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/20\/an-alternative-to-the-response-to-the-state-of-the-union-address-must-see\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An alternative to the response to the state of the union address. Must see.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5pp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}