{"id":1080,"date":"2008-09-04T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T11:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2008-09-04T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T11:04:04","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (61)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The selection of Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, as John McCain&#8217;s Republican running mate has certainly enlivened what was already a very exciting &#8211; and seemingly very close &#8211; presidential race. Her address to the Republican National Convention in St Paul has energised the traditional Republican base, but I&#8217;m not sure that its hard-line message is going to appeal much to independents and most especially not to disillusioned Hillary Clinton supporters. She spoke very fluently and her timing is excellent, but she was snide and divisive and small-minded.<br \/>\nYou and see, hear and read her speech <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7597238.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The selection of Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, as John McCain&#8217;s Republican running mate has certainly enlivened what was already a very exciting &#8211; and seemingly very close &#8211; presidential race. Her address to the Republican National Convention in St Paul has energised the traditional Republican base, but I&#8217;m not sure that its hard-line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}