{"id":816,"date":"2008-03-03T00:39:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T08:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=816"},"modified":"2008-03-03T00:39:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T08:39:12","slug":"the-persistence-of-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"The Persistence Of Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign08\/persistence.jpg\" alt=\"Persistence of Mission\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John McCain is running for George Bush&#8217;s 3rd term and promising more wars for 100 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain is running for George Bush&#8217;s 3rd term and promising more wars for 100 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture","category-general","category-graphix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-da","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1012,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1012","url_meta":{"origin":816,"position":0},"title":"Bush: Back On The Bottle?","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/12\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The national embarrassment that is our president once again raises its reddened face. 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