{"id":8915,"date":"2016-06-22T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T21:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=8915"},"modified":"2016-06-19T16:31:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T21:31:37","slug":"the-news-media-and-stupid-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=8915","title":{"rendered":"The News Media And Stupid Questions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While elections years are stressful enough, why does the news media make it more stressful by asking stupid questions?\u00a0 One of the stupidest questions is when they ask a candidate if they feel that they are qualified to hold office.\u00a0 Does the news media really think that a candidate will every say &#8220;no&#8221;?\u00a0 Questions like these just show how brain dead the news media really is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While elections years are stressful enough, why does the news media make it more stressful by asking stupid questions?\u00a0 One of the stupidest questions is when they ask a candidate if they feel that they are qualified to hold office.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=8915\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-2jN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8916,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions\/8916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}