{"id":539,"date":"2012-10-03T14:54:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T18:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2018-10-03T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T18:55:12","slug":"the-expectations-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/03\/the-expectations-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The expectations game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Presidential debate tonight, each camp is trying hard to lower expectations. The President&#8217;s camp is praising Romney as a skilled debater, while the President has not had to debate for several years, so is likely to be rusty. The Romney camp retorts that the President is known to be a gifted orator, and that Romney has been working hard just to utter intelligible grunts during debate prep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Presidential debate tonight, each camp is trying hard to lower expectations. The President&#8217;s camp is praising Romney as a skilled debater, while the President has not had to debate for several years, so is likely to be rusty. The Romney camp retorts that the President is known to be a gifted orator, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/03\/the-expectations-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The expectations game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}