{"id":2494,"date":"2008-10-07T15:34:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T20:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2008-10-07T15:52:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T20:52:49","slug":"time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/07\/time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"time machine?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"261\" width=\"520\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/gallup_10_07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Who can know what such things mean at this point? I&#8217;m apprehensive about tonight&#8217;s debate. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s about Obama not being up to the task of dealing with McCain&#8217;s escalating nastiness. Nor am I worried about McCain&#8217;s McCarthy-like attacks about Ayers. What worries me, I think, is that Obama is between a rock and a hard place. He almost has to enter the world of the mudslingers, and I&#8217;m worried that doing so will impair his ability to pull us together after the election. He handled that with the Clintons and came through relatively unscathed, so maybe my worry is just that &#8211; worry. But if I had a Time Machine, I&#8217;d set it for <strong>November 5th, 2008<\/strong>, and willingly push the button. Having no Time Machine button to push, I went to the County Offices today and voted. I needed to push a button, I guess&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who can know what such things mean at this point? I&#8217;m apprehensive about tonight&#8217;s debate. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s about Obama not being up to the task of dealing with McCain&#8217;s escalating nastiness. Nor am I worried about McCain&#8217;s McCarthy-like attacks about Ayers. What worries me, I think, is that Obama is between a rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}