{"id":55,"date":"2008-09-01T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/01\/this-election-is-about-life\/"},"modified":"2013-12-21T20:52:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T00:52:45","slug":"this-election-is-about-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/this-election-is-about-life\/","title":{"rendered":"This election is about life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last post &#8211; made as a joking aside about James Carville&#8217;s famous quip, has since turned out to be totally and 100% on target: this election is definitely about life.  After McCain&#8217;s selection of Palin, rumors flew that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/8\/30\/12229\/8720\/501\/580208\">she was Trig&#8217;s grandmother<\/a>. The latest &#8211; Bristol Palin is not Trig&#8217;s mother &#8211; but she is, indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/informing\/news\/PressReleases\/ab547fc8-d96d-4f87-aa8a-2e52be2b66fc.htm\">a mother<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/09\/01\/bristol-palin-chooses-life-now-leave-her-alone\/\">Michelle Malkin<\/a> summed it up that the contrasts between the two teams couldn&#8217;t be any stronger. Yet most of America is completely in the dark about Obama&#8217;s views, in particular why Obama gave <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/KevinMcCullough\/2008\/08\/17\/above_my_pay_grade\">that unusual answer at Saddleback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While it left many confused &#8211; when they learn of Obama&#8217;s reason (and, like my younger brother, they get over being sick) then they truly grasp what kind of hope and change he&#8217;s pushing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a story that needs to be told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last post &#8211; made as a joking aside about James Carville&#8217;s famous quip, has since turned out to be totally and 100% on target: this election is definitely about life. After McCain&#8217;s selection of Palin, rumors flew that she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/this-election-is-about-life\/\">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":[128],"tags":[9,127,248,57,39,28,41],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-abortion","tag-baipa","tag-election08","tag-mccain-candidates","tag-motherhood","tag-obama","tag-palin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}