{"id":539,"date":"2004-09-13T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2004-09-13T17:23:22","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T21:23:22","slug":"the-endorsements-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"The Endorsements Begin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/KerryThumb.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">The conservative <i>Seattle Times<\/i>, who endorsed Bush in 2000, realize now <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/editorialsopinion\/2002016659_kerryed27.html\" target=\"_blank\">how wrong they were<\/a> and are instead endorsing Kerry this year!<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Four years ago, this page endorsed George W. Bush for president. We cannot do so again \u2014 because of an ill-conceived war and its aftermath, undisciplined spending, a shrinkage of constitutional rights and an intrusive social agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The Bush presidency is not what we had in mind. Our endorsement of John Kerry is not without reservations, but he is head and shoulders above the incumbent.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wow! I guess they really <i>are<\/i> conservatives! Unlike the bulk of the Fake Conservatives we see commenting so frequently here on the BRAD BLOG and elsewhere out there in the America Hatin&#8217; World of Rightwing Nutballs. There&#8217;s hope for this country yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative Seattle Times, who endorsed Bush in 2000, realize now how wrong they were and are instead endorsing Kerry this year! Four years ago, this page endorsed George W. Bush for president. We cannot do so again \u2014 because of an ill-conceived war and its aftermath, undisciplined spending, a shrinkage of constitutional rights and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}