{"id":144318,"date":"2023-07-14T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T18:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=144318"},"modified":"2023-07-13T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:47:48","slug":"weekend-open-thread-453","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=144318","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-144320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02.jpg?resize=333%2C333&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Large segments of the electorate have no interest in following politics, discussing it, etc.\u00a0Many of these individuals subsequently treat elections as popularity contests rather than as a qualification screening process. This event has contributed to clowns being elected into office who see themselves as our masters rather than as public servants. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Enjoy your weekend.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large segments of the electorate have no interest in following politics, discussing it, etc.\u00a0Many of these individuals subsequently treat elections as popularity contests rather than as a qualification screening process. This event has contributed to clowns being elected into office who see themselves as our masters rather than as public servants. Enjoy your weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-BxI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}