{"id":149,"date":"2004-09-10T09:43:57","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T14:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-01-20T14:25:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T22:25:13","slug":"battle-hardened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/09\/10\/battle-hardened\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle hardened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Carpenter avers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The expression &#8220;<strong>battleground states<\/strong>&#8221; has become such an obvious cliche during this presidential campaign season, I&#8217;m surprised that well-known broadcast reporters are still using it. Is it sly self-parody?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Carpenter avers: The expression &#8220;battleground states&#8221; has become such an obvious cliche during this presidential campaign season, I&#8217;m surprised that well-known broadcast reporters are still using it. Is it sly self-parody?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}