{"id":4382,"date":"2016-02-15T15:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2022-03-20T19:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T00:30:59","slug":"presidential-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/presidential-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6072.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4383\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6072.jpg?resize=450%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_6072\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6072.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6072.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6072.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6072.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_6072.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>I had a presidential politics discussion with Griffin this morning, prompted by a question about what the covers of these magazines mean. I explained the idea of a spectrum of beliefs (exemplified by stances on candy consumption, of course, which was well received and understood). Our conversation culminated in Griffin&#8217;s written commentary on the big T as a &#8220;bad guy&#8221; and questions of whether our personal political views are closer to &#8220;no candy ever&#8221; or &#8220;candy all the time,&#8221; to which I responded, &#8220;it&#8217;s complicated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a presidential politics discussion with Griffin this morning, prompted by a question about what the covers of these magazines mean. I explained the idea of a spectrum of beliefs (exemplified by stances on candy consumption, of course, which was well received and understood). Our conversation culminated in Griffin&#8217;s written commentary on the big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/presidential-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Presidential Politics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-4382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griffin","tag-griffin-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}