{"id":4817,"date":"2011-09-08T07:46:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T11:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2011-09-08T07:46:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T11:46:22","slug":"shawn-otto-on-the-tap-dancing-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/shawn-otto-on-the-tap-dancing-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Otto on the Tap Dancing Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The republican party has become increasingly corrupted at the activist level by a mix of antiscience religious zealots and anti-climate change contrarian irrationalists.  This is causing problems for candidates who need to make it through the endorsing process while still appearing rational enough to win the general election.  The GOP Reagan Library Debate had this tap dancing on ready display, and highlights the problem reason-minded republicans face.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shawnotto.com\/neorenaissance\/blog20110907.html\">Check out Shawn&#8217;s analysis. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The republican party has become increasingly corrupted at the activist level by a mix of antiscience religious zealots and anti-climate change contrarian irrationalists. This is causing problems for candidates who need to make it through the endorsing process while still appearing rational enough to win the general election. The GOP Reagan Library Debate had this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/shawn-otto-on-the-tap-dancing-candidates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shawn Otto on the Tap Dancing Candidates<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1fH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817"}],"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=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}