{"id":294,"date":"2002-09-03T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2002-09-03T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/09\/03\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-22T11:11:40","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T15:11:40","slug":"benson-vs-mitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/09\/03\/benson-vs-mitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Benson vs Mitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>You know things are bad when national newsmagazines start <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/801533.asp\">talking about<\/a> New Hampshire in a year where there&#8217;s no presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with her.  I didn&#8217;t know how much had been spent on the election, but given that I can&#8217;t turn on my radio without hearing 4-5 Pro-Benson ads per hour, I believe it.  He&#8217;s been on the airwaves (in Massachusetts!) even more than our Utah-Resident-Governor-Wannabe Mitt Romney.  And the ads, quite frankly, horrify me.  They are smarmy and self-righteous and there is something about them that is just&#8230; off.  It makes my skin crawl to listen to them.  It almost makes me wish I was still a New Hampshire resident so I could go up there and vote against him.  I guess I&#8217;ll have to settle for voting against Mitt, though.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know things are bad when national newsmagazines start talking about New Hampshire in a year where there&#8217;s no presidential election. I agree with her. I didn&#8217;t know how much had been spent on the election, but given that I can&#8217;t turn on my radio without hearing 4-5 Pro-Benson ads per hour, I believe it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}