{"id":323,"date":"2008-09-02T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.142:8080\/2008\/09\/02\/editorial-from-msnbc\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T13:27:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T17:27:43","slug":"editorial-from-msnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/02\/editorial-from-msnbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial from MSNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An editorial by Brian Alexander of MSNBC.com:<\/p>\n<p><i>The 17-year-old daughter of Alaska governor Sarah Palin is pregnant. If not for the fact that Senator John McCain has chosen Palin to be his running mate, would we care? I doubt it&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>War in Iraq, economy imploding, energy transformation finally on America\u2019s agenda, income disparity threatening the social order, cynicism infecting every corner of American life, a tectonic shift to a multi-polar world, a collapsing educational system, and you want to make the pregnancy of a 17-year-old a political issue?<\/p>\n<p><\/i><i>Stop it. Unmarried 17-year-old girls get pregnant every day in this country \u2014 too many of them \u2014 and they come from strong, healthy families, and broken, dysfunctional families, and conservative families and liberal families&#8230; <\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26501011\/\">More at the jump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='lj-moods-meta'><b>Current Mood:<\/b> \ud83d\ude41morose<br\/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An editorial by Brian Alexander of MSNBC.com: The 17-year-old daughter of Alaska governor Sarah Palin is pregnant. If not for the fact that Senator John McCain has chosen Palin to be his running mate, would we care? I doubt it&#8230; War in Iraq, economy imploding, energy transformation finally on America\u2019s agenda, income disparity threatening the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}