{"id":2134,"date":"2008-01-04T07:41:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T07:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/04\/congratulations-to\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T07:41:12","slug":"congratulations-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/04\/congratulations-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to _________"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa caucuses are finally over, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/1\/2\/16616\/71705\">Daily Kos has the scoop<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Finally, primary season is over, and it couldn&#8217;t come soon enough. After a week of conflicting polls and a flurry of last minute campaigning by all parties, ______ has (narrowly \/ decisively) won the Iowa caucuses.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous factors contributed to this very predictable Iowa win. First, the ground game, and\/or lack thereof. Second, the weather, most specifically the fact that the weather was different from what it might have been. And third, as always in Iowa, caucus-goers&#8217; &#8220;second choices&#8221; were (futile \/ important \/ decisive). If the voters had voted differently, then those different results would have been different &#8212; think how much <i>that<\/i> would have changed things.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I look forward to a vigorous campaign this summer and fall&#8211; the debates between ____________ and ___________ ought to be particularly entertaining. Congratulations to _____________, and better luck next time, Ron Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa caucuses are finally over, and Daily Kos has the scoop: Finally, primary season is over, and it couldn&#8217;t come soon enough. After a week of conflicting polls and a flurry of last minute campaigning by all parties, ______ has (narrowly \/ decisively) won the Iowa caucuses. Numerous factors contributed to this very predictable&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/04\/congratulations-to\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations to _________<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}