{"id":77,"date":"2004-02-20T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=77"},"modified":"2004-02-20T12:42:36","modified_gmt":"2004-02-20T17:42:36","slug":"they-said-it-not-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"They Said It, Not Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>It is the year 2000.  In the presidential campaign&#8230;<br \/>\nNew Mexico hinges on 366 votes, Florida on only 537 votes.<br \/>\nIowa is won by 4144 votes, Wisconsin by 5708 votes.<br \/>\nOregon is decided by 6765 votes, New Hampshire by 7211 votes.<br \/>\nIn the closest presidential election in modern history, 24,731 people in a nation of 280 million make the difference for 59 electoral votes.  An incredible statistic when you consider just 4 electoral votes meant the difference between a President Bush and a President Gore.<\/i><br \/>\nEmail received yesterday from the Bush (and, currently, Cheney) campaign for 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the year 2000. In the presidential campaign&#8230; New Mexico hinges on 366 votes, Florida on only 537 votes. Iowa is won by 4144 votes, Wisconsin by 5708 votes. Oregon is decided by 6765 votes, New Hampshire by 7211 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=77\">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-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}