{"id":2747,"date":"2016-03-09T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2016-03-09T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:58:31","slug":"wednesday-9-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/03\/09\/wednesday-9-march-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 9 March 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:58 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Barbara hit the gym this morning. We worked hard yesterday getting stuff moved up to the attic, installing shelves and tool racks in the garage, and so on. We had a nice sunny day for it, with a high around 70F. Today is to be the same.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I don&#8217;t understand why all the news outlets are wasting so much space on the primary caucuses and elections. It should be clear to anyone by now that voters are utterly fed-up with more politics-as-usual. They&#8217;re ready to throw out the baby, the bathwater, and the tub itself. How else could anyone explain how well lunatic-fringe psychopath demagogues like Trump and Saunders are doing? The only thing they have going for them is that they&#8217;re not more-of-the-same, or at least they claim not to be. But with the possible exception of Cruz, not one of them has a shred of integrity. Cruz may be different. I believe that he&#8217;s a man of his convictions, unafraid to stand up and speak for them no matter how popular or unpopular they may be with the electorate or the party hierarchy. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t share his convictions on many issues. But at least I believe that he means exactly what he says, which is refreshing for any politician.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:58 &#8211; Barbara hit the gym this morning. We worked hard yesterday getting stuff moved up to the attic, installing shelves and tool racks in the garage, and so on. We had a nice sunny day for it, with a high around 70F. Today is to be the same.\n<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why all the news outlets are wasting so much space on the primary caucuses and elections. It should be clear to anyone by now that voters are utterly fed-up with more politics-as-usual.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/03\/09\/wednesday-9-march-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wednesday, 9 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-2747","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\/2747","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=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}