{"id":487,"date":"2008-01-28T16:11:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T21:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/28\/state-of-the-union\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T21:11:58","slug":"state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/28\/state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2008-01-28-bush-sotu_N.htm\">State of the Union<\/a> address.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, if I&#8217;m ever President, I think I&#8217;m going to direct those familiar with the speech to keep mum. I know that the State of the Union isn&#8217;t exactly the place for suspense and drama, but it&#8217;s kind of upsetting, in some way, to know exactly what he&#8217;s going to say before he says it. USA Today comments that Obama and Hillary will both be present, and ads, &#8220;Those two alone will draw most of the reaction shots shown on television.&#8221; So not only do we know what will be said, but we seem to know, as fact, what the cameras will be focusing on.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Congress will vehemently oppose his push for permanent codification of warrant-less wiretaps into law, and am pretty leery of him being the one behind tax cuts (they seem to be given to the wrong people), but I do support (strongly!) his plan to curb earmarks.<\/p>\n<p>The frequent Reagan comparisons (on the part of USA Today) are borderline creepy, by the way.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is the State of the Union address. As an aside, if I&#8217;m ever President, I think I&#8217;m going to direct those familiar with the speech to keep mum. I know that the State of the Union isn&#8217;t exactly the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/28\/state-of-the-union\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","category-obama","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}