{"id":842,"date":"2006-10-26T08:43:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T13:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:46:35","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:46:35","slug":"brooks-comes-to-his-senses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Brooks comes to his senses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recall a few months back that one of my favorite columnists, David Brooks, was describing Tom Delay as an essentially mild mannered and harmless politician. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=26718&#038;section=Opinion\">His column today<\/a> shows that he has finally woken to the myopia of the Republican right exemplified by Delay.<\/p>\n<p>What could happen is that Democrats might completely take over Centrist stage and supplant the GOP for years to come. That would be poetic justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recall a few months back that one of my favorite columnists, David Brooks, was describing Tom Delay as an essentially mild mannered and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}