{"id":3184,"date":"2008-10-07T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T15:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2008-10-08T02:39:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T06:39:18","slug":"its-debatable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3184","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s debatable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I wonder if there&#8217;s any real point in my watching tonight&#8217;s presidential debate. I want to stay politically and culturally cognizant, of course &#8212; and I&#8217;ve watched both of the previous two debates &#8212; but I&#8217;m not an undecided voter. Short of a complete personality and policy shift (and a new VP), there&#8217;s not a chance in hell I&#8217;ll be voting for John McCain come November 4. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">So the debate may serve only to make me angry whenever I think McCain is lying, smug when I think Obama has scored a point, and curious about how the inevitable <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> sketch will portray events. I&#8217;m not sure what information, much less <em>enjoyment<\/em> I&#8217;d get out of it. And that&#8217;s a hefty chunk of time out of my evening.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">And yet I feel like I <em>should<\/em> watch it. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><strong>Update: <\/strong>I didnt watch it, and I feel strangely better for it.  <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if there&#8217;s any real point in my watching tonight&#8217;s presidential debate. I want to stay politically and culturally cognizant, of course &#8212; and I&#8217;ve watched both of the previous two debates &#8212; but I&#8217;m not an undecided voter. Short of a complete personality and policy shift (and a new VP), there&#8217;s not a &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3184\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}