{"id":15311,"date":"2025-02-16T19:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15311"},"modified":"2025-02-16T20:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T20:56:46","slug":"america-needs-the-odd-man-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15311","title":{"rendered":"America needs the odd man out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/02\/16\/america-needs-the-odd-man-out\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/02\/16\/america-needs-the-odd-man-out\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celebrating those who dared poke! A popular Madison radio talker and (I think) still friend says \u201cWatching Trump unload on Mitch McConnell makes you want to cheer.\u201d As if the former leader of Senate Republicans is the problem. We, ourselves, preach it\u2019s never too early to go negative. Lee Atwater got it right the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/02\/16\/america-needs-the-odd-man-out\/ Celebrating those who dared poke! A popular Madison radio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15312,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions\/15312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}