{"id":4594,"date":"2024-07-22T08:44:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2024-07-22T06:49:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T02:49:53","slug":"bye-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4594","title":{"rendered":"Bye, Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we were students in college, Joe Sullivan and I talked about producing an academic report on what the\u00a0<em>real<\/em> reason was every time a politician dropped out of a race. The pol usually gave some version of,\u00a0<em>I want to spend more time with my family<\/em>, but Joe and I said that was B.S.<\/p>\n<p>Joe was going to actually dig into the various reasons why, but I said I could come up with only one, the universal true reason:<\/p>\n<p><em>I thought I was going to lose.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. And I documented this in September of 2006: the monologue from\u00a0<em>Live &#8216;n&#8217; On Q<\/em>. (Yeah, one that&#8217;s not on Spotify but you can probably find it somewhere.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have Sullivan around to dig for me but I stand by my position in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>See above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were students in college, Joe Sullivan and I talked about producing an academic report on what the\u00a0real reason was every time a politician dropped out of a race. The pol usually gave some version of,\u00a0I want to spend &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4594\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4595,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/4595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}