{"id":3869,"date":"2009-07-14T11:10:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T11:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/14\/stolen-question-whos-coming-to\/"},"modified":"2009-07-14T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T11:10:15","slug":"stolen-question-whos-coming-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/14\/stolen-question-whos-coming-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Question: Who&#8217;s Coming to Dinner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running way behind this morning for a variety of reasons, so I&#8217;m going to swipe another easy question and throw it back to the audience. this one&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/ask_me_easy_questions.php#comment-1771507\">Eric Lund<\/a>, who asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you could attend a dinner with any major political figure in the world, who would it be, and why?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The answer that makes this an easy question is &#8220;Barack Obama,&#8221; who is currently the most major of world political figures, and comes off as almost too good to be true on tv. So I&#8217;d like to have dinner with him (after playing hoops for a while to work up an appetite), just to see if he&#8217;s really that good.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s too obvious a question. So, other than Obama, what major political figure would you have dinner with, if you could?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running way behind this morning for a variety of reasons, so I&#8217;m going to swipe another easy question and throw it back to the audience. this one&#8217;s from Eric Lund, who asked: If you could attend a dinner with any major political figure in the world, who would it be, and why? The answer&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/14\/stolen-question-whos-coming-to\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stolen Question: Who&#8217;s Coming to Dinner?<\/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":[28,37,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-pop_culture","category-society","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","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=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}