{"id":999,"date":"2016-01-29T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2016-01-29T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:45:00","slug":"trump-comes-out-on-top-at-gop-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=999","title":{"rendered":"Trump comes out on top at GOP debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched three minutes of last night&#8217;s Republican Presidential candidates&#8217; debate on the Fox News Channel. That was enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I wanted to see whether The Man, Donald Trump, would appear on stage. He did not. I figured it would be worth my time to see what the other candidates had to say in his absence, so I stuck with it for another two and a half minutes. The first speaker, Senator Ted Cruz, began with a crack about Donald Trump. The second speaker, Senator Mark Rubio, began with a crack about Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Owning the stage when you&#8217;re not even there. That&#8217;s a winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched three minutes of last night&#8217;s Republican Presidential candidates&#8217; debate on the Fox News Channel. That was enough for me. Of course I wanted to see whether The Man, Donald Trump, would appear on stage. He did not. I &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=999\">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-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","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=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}