{"id":7951,"date":"2023-10-13T08:55:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T13:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7951"},"modified":"2023-10-13T08:56:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T13:56:03","slug":"on-vague-political-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7951","title":{"rendered":"On Vague Political Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indeed do politicians speak in ambiguous terms <br>That they may be more &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; in their reach,<br>That others their positions they may teach.<br>Yea, to an audience more receptive to their positions<br>So that at the voting booth they may make decisions<br>Compatible with the policies they do advocate<br>Which has little to do with love or with hate<br>But with the desire to gain popularity with the people,<br>The masses who go to the voting booth with fidelity<br>Regardless of the candidates&#8217; credibility or veracity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0944 on 13 Oct., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed do politicians speak in ambiguous terms That they may be more &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; in their reach,That others their positions they may teach.Yea, to an audience more receptive to their positionsSo that at the voting booth they may make decisionsCompatible with the policies they do advocateWhich has little to do with love or with hateBut with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12,52,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7953,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions\/7953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}