{"id":537,"date":"2006-04-30T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T21:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/archives\/2006\/04\/30\/republican-lip-service\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T08:40:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T13:40:21","slug":"republican-lip-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/2006\/04\/republican-lip-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Lip Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then, I read articles like these, which confirm my opinion of the Republican Party.  I don&#8217;t post all of them, since I don&#8217;t want my blog to sound like a skipping record.  But, I&#8217;ll post this one, entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2006\/04\/30\/Perspective\/GOP_brushing_off_abor.shtml\">GOP brushing off abortion opponents<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLiberals and plenty of Republicans have long questioned whether conservative leaders really want to make abortion illegal. Removing it from their culture war arsenal would be a blow to the GOP get-out-the-vote playbook.<\/p>\n<p>In his 2004 bestseller, What&#8217;s the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank argued that Republicans have convinced working class and middle class Americans to vote against their own self-interest based on cultural wedge issues to which the GOP ultimately only pays lip service.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\">Fark<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then, I read articles like these, which confirm my opinion of the Republican Party. I don&#8217;t post all of them, since I don&#8217;t want my blog to sound like a skipping record. But, I&#8217;ll post this one, entitled &#8220;GOP brushing off abortion opponents&#8220;. Liberals and plenty of Republicans have long questioned whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}