{"id":289,"date":"2006-05-23T20:40:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/primary-directives\/"},"modified":"2006-05-23T20:40:11","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T20:40:11","slug":"primary-directives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/primary-directives\/","title":{"rendered":"PRIMARY DIRECTIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As always, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/waldo.jaquith.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/i-hate-primaries\/\">Waldo and his band of loyal readers<\/a> have an interesting discussion going on regarding the VA primaries. I sympathize with Waldo&#8217;s frustration, but I also agree with the point that a well-fought primary campaign only makes the candidate a better campaigner and better prepared for the real fight. If you think things are nasty now, wait until our guy goes up against <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/weblog\/2006\/04\/post_222.html#002149\">George Allen<\/a>&#8230;(<em>shudder<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>You can see a pretty good &#8220;debate&#8221; video of Harris Miller and Jim Webb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvec.com\/sharedcontent\/VideoPlayer\/videoPlayer.php?vidId=66373&#038;catId=44\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, Waldo and his band of loyal readers have an interesting discussion going on regarding the VA primaries. I sympathize with Waldo&#8217;s frustration, but I also agree with the point that a well-fought primary campaign only makes the candidate a better campaigner and better prepared for the real fight. If you think things are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers","category-politics","category-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-4F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}