{"id":2741,"date":"2016-03-03T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2016-03-03T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:42:10","slug":"thursday-3-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/03\/03\/thursday-3-march-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 3 March 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:42 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> We made a trip down to Winston yesterday. Barbara dropped Colin and me at the house and then left for a haircut appointment and a trip to the dentist. Colin and I packed stuff up while she was gone and we then loaded the stuff into the Trooper and headed back to Sparta. She&#8217;s off to the gym and supermarket this morning, while Colin and I await the mail pickup.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">A lot of my libertarian-leaning friends vote Republican, on the theory that a Libertarian has no chance of being elected while a Republican is likely to be at least marginally better than a Democrat. And I think that&#8217;s generally true, in the sense that I&#8217;d far rather have a Cruz or even a Rubio as president than Clinton or Sanders. But this year I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s going to be the choice. I&#8217;m afraid it&#8217;s going to be a choice of Trump or Clinton, and I really don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s safe to assume that Trump would be better than Clinton. He may in fact be even worse, as hard as that is to imagine. Trump, like any psychopath\/politician, will SAY whatever he thinks voters want to hear. What he actually DOES once he&#8217;s elected would almost certainly bear no resemblance to what he promised. I mistrust Trump at least as much as I mistrust Clinton, and that&#8217;s saying something.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:42 &#8211; We made a trip down to Winston yesterday. Barbara dropped Colin and me at the house and then left for a haircut appointment and a trip to the dentist. Colin and I packed stuff up while she was gone and we then loaded the stuff into the Trooper and headed back to Sparta. She&#8217;s off to the gym and supermarket this morning, while Colin and I await the mail pickup.\n<\/p>\n<p>A lot of my libertarian-leaning friends vote Republican,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/03\/03\/thursday-3-march-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thursday, 3 March 2016 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}