{"id":280,"date":"2011-05-26T20:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T03:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/eatreadandbeharried\/?p=280"},"modified":"2011-05-26T20:30:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T03:30:43","slug":"dear-sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/dear-sarah-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Sarah Palin,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I think it would be hysterical to watch Jon Stewart during any campaign for president you launched, I think you need to find some people who aren&#8217;t always agreeing with you to talk to you about such an endeavor. I think you would be spending money &#8212; yours and other people&#8217;s &#8212; and wasting your time. You don&#8217;t have a realistic chance of winning.<\/p>\n<p>While this might be entertaining to the left, I think it&#8217;s a disservice to the country to have &#8220;joke&#8221; candidates run for the highest office in the land. Donald Trump didn&#8217;t add anything to the discourse, and while you probably have purer motives for a run, you just don&#8217;t have the relevant experience or gravitas. You are a polarizing figure who doesn&#8217;t have a real shot at the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>What this country desperately needs &#8212; and deserves &#8212; is real candidates who will discuss the issues without all the polemic and without demonizing\u00a0 the opposition. I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re that person. So don&#8217;t run. Please. It&#8217;s not worth it for us, and if you really care about us as much as you say, you&#8217;ll consider that more than the fire in your belly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I think it would be hysterical to watch Jon Stewart during any campaign for president you launched, I think you need to find some people who aren&#8217;t always agreeing with you to talk to you about such an endeavor. I think you would be spending money &#8212; yours and other people&#8217;s &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,30],"tags":[76,117,180],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-famous-people","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-jon-stewart","tag-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}