{"id":891,"date":"2008-04-21T20:10:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T19:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=891"},"modified":"2008-04-21T20:10:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T19:10:03","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (28)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary when we might see the Democratic field reduced to one, spare a thought for one-time contender John Edwards. In a normal set of primaries &#8211; that is, when there was not the chance to choose the first woman President or the first black President &#8211; Edwards might have been expected to do much better than he in fact did. He has an excellent programme and still has a lot to contribute to US politics.<br \/>\nOf course, his wife&#8217;s renewed battle with cancer didn&#8217;t help his campaign and might well have been a factor in his early withdrawal. The &#8220;Mirror&#8221; newspaper today has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/topstories\/2008\/04\/21\/exclusive-video-senator-john-edwards-talks-to-the-daily-mirror-89520-20390296\/\">an exclusive interview<\/a> with John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth. He reminds us that, in the richest nation on earth, 37 million Americans live below the poverty line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary when we might see the Democratic field reduced to one, spare a thought for one-time contender John Edwards. In a normal set of primaries &#8211; that is, when there was not the chance to choose the first woman President or the first black President &#8211; Edwards might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","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\/891","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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}