{"id":698,"date":"2012-08-22T10:03:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T16:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2012-08-22T10:03:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T16:03:30","slug":"politics-whose-game-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"POLITICS &#8211; &#8211; -WHOSE GAME IS IT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>One word,\u00a0 &#8220;legitimate&#8221;\u00a0 instead of\u00a0 &#8220;forcible,&#8221;\u00a0 and the entire Republican establishment runs scared and turns on their own and shoots themselves in the foot in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The parallels with four years ago astound me.\u00a0 Supporters of the death wish in Washington just took another dose of cool-aid to further seal the election and the fate of this country.<\/p>\n<p>Thank God for a handful of Christian leaders standing behind Todd Akin.\u00a0 I just wrote him a note of support.\u00a0 We need him and his kind in Washington, in the Senate.\u00a0 &#8220;May his tribe increase.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I usually have plenty of words to respond, but today I am just dumbfounded.\u00a0 I knew we were in trouble, but this is the first time I say, &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unbelievable. One word,\u00a0 &#8220;legitimate&#8221;\u00a0 instead of\u00a0 &#8220;forcible,&#8221;\u00a0 and the entire Republican establishment runs scared and turns on their own and shoots themselves in the foot in the process. The parallels with four years ago astound me.\u00a0 Supporters of the death wish in Washington just took another dose of cool-aid to further seal the election and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}