{"id":4428,"date":"2015-11-17T22:21:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T03:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2015-11-17T22:24:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T03:24:39","slug":"i-prefer-cringe-position-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4428","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I PREFER THE CRINGE POSITION MYSELF&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is that what Democrats say when they meet someone really hot at a party?<\/p>\n<p>This speculation prompted by my starting Mark Hertsgaard&#8217;s important late-1980s book, &#8220;On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency,&#8221; which details twin disasters of the 1980s: the way the Democrats ceased to be an opposition party and the way that the media refused to hold Reagan accountable.<\/p>\n<p>All accomplished by expert stage management on the part of Reagan&#8217;s handlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is that what Democrats say when they meet someone really hot at a party? This speculation prompted by my starting Mark Hertsgaard&#8217;s important late-1980s book, &#8220;On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency,&#8221; which details twin disasters of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4428\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4432,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}