{"id":7739,"date":"2012-10-26T11:07:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T16:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7739"},"modified":"2012-10-26T11:07:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T16:07:25","slug":"while-david-brooks-correctly-sees-the-gop-for-what-theyve-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7739","title":{"rendered":"While David Brooks correctly sees the GOP for what they&#8217;ve become&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/10\/do-you-remember-this.html\">Peggy Noonan<\/a> returns to the fold with a historical fantasy about Obama&#8217;s ultra liberal attack on the Grand Old Party.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He misread his Republican opponents from day one. If he had been large-spirited and conciliatory he would have effectively undercut them, and kept them from uniting. (If he&#8217;d been large-spirited with Mr. Romney, he would have undercut him, too.) Instead he was toughly partisan, he shut them out, and positions hardened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Peggy Noonan returns to the fold with a historical fantasy about Obama&#8217;s ultra liberal attack on the Grand Old Party. He misread his Republican&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,110],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7740,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions\/7740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}