{"id":718,"date":"2006-11-09T07:32:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T12:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=718"},"modified":"2006-11-09T07:32:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T12:32:23","slug":"heard-of-family-values-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"Heard of &#8220;Family Values&#8221; Lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to spend a little &#8211; no, a lot &#8211; more quality time with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/ELECTION\/2006\/pages\/results\/states\/OH\/S\/01\/epolls.0.html\" target=\"_blank\">the exit poll pages<\/a> on cnn.com, but on light perusal, my belief that in order to win, political parties need to appeal to unmarried voters (about 1\/3 of the electorate) certainly held true this past Tuesday.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nIn fact, I can&#8217;t recall a single race in which that ridiculous phrase, &#8220;family values&#8221;, was even uttered, let alone made a core campaign issue.<br \/>\nWhat a difference from 2000 and 2004.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s hope this particular divisive, misleading tactical misuse of the language has finally died a well-deserved death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to spend a little &#8211; no, a lot &#8211; more quality time with the exit poll pages on cnn.com, but on light perusal, my belief that in order to win, political parties need to appeal to unmarried voters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=718\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}