{"id":484,"date":"2016-07-29T07:46:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=484"},"modified":"2016-07-29T07:46:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:46:18","slug":"unabashed-attempt-at-cooptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Unabashed Attempt at Cooptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;Our country needs your ideas, energy, and passion.&#8220; When I heard this I was reminded of the ROTC guys I debated at the U. of Michigan in the fall of 1978. I&#8217;d been bicycling in Europe the previous couple summers and looked forward to doing the same the next year. One of the Army guys assured me he wouldn&#8217;t vacation in Europe because Soviet invasion was imminent. When I argued against new nuclear weapons in Europe ROTC welcomed my debating skills, encouraging me to join the Army. This is how I see Clinton&#8217;s gesture to Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2016\/jul\/29\/hillary-clinton-annotated-democratic-convention-speech\">Guardian article <\/a>I read this morning claimed the Democratic party came out of its convention &#8222;looking more or less united.&#8220; This was not my experience. I am curious to see where the Sanders energy goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;Our country needs your ideas, energy, and passion.&#8220; When I heard this I was reminded of the ROTC guys I debated at the U. of Michigan in the fall of 1978. I&#8217;d been bicycling in Europe the previous couple summers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=484\">Weiterlesen <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":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}