{"id":1240,"date":"2013-11-15T20:46:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T04:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2013-11-15T21:05:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T05:05:47","slug":"seattle-redeems-itself-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Redeems Itself (Sort Of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After electing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2013\/08\/07\/ed-murray-i-am-not-running-to-be-a-progressive-mayor-of-seattle&amp;view=comments\">corporate Democrat<\/a> to the mayor&#8217;s office to replace a bumbling* but at least non-corporate incumbent, Seattle elects <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2013\/11\/14\/kshama-sawant-jumps-to-1148-vote-lead\">a socialist<\/a> to the City Council.<\/p>\n<p>* And yes, McGinn <em>was<\/em> bumbling and incompetent. But I&#8217;d rather have someone incompetent at doing good things than someone competent at doing bad ones. Of course it&#8217;s sort of academic at this point since I&#8217;ve moved out of Seattle and have no plans to move back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After electing a corporate Democrat to the mayor&#8217;s office to replace a bumbling* but at least non-corporate incumbent, Seattle elects a socialist to the City Council. * And yes, McGinn was bumbling and incompetent. But I&#8217;d rather have someone incompetent at doing good things than someone competent at doing bad ones. Of course it&#8217;s sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}