{"id":1525,"date":"2012-10-17T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2012-10-17T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:00:16","slug":"eye-opening-the-debates-are-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/17\/eye-opening-the-debates-are-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye opening: the debates are fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lame rules for presidential debates: a perfect microcosm of US democracy<br \/>\nSecret collusion between the two parties, funded by corporations, run by lobbyists: all the ingredients are there<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/oct\/16\/presidential-debate-issues\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/oct\/16\/presidential-debate-issues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know this shouldn&#8217;t be surprising to me, but I just keep on failing to appreciate how bad things are.  The whole &#8216;debate&#8217; format is specifically designed to _minimize_ debate or any possibility of spontaneity.  The candidates know the questions before hand and no extra questioning is allowed.  What a joke!  I am glad I watched an episode from the season DVD of Psych instead!  A better use of my time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lame rules for presidential debates: a perfect microcosm of US democracy Secret collusion between the two parties, funded by corporations, run by lobbyists: all the ingredients are there http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/oct\/16\/presidential-debate-issues I know this shouldn&#8217;t be surprising to me, but I just keep on failing to appreciate how bad things are. The whole &#8216;debate&#8217; format is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/17\/eye-opening-the-debates-are-fixed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eye opening: the debates are fixed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}