{"id":492,"date":"2007-07-31T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T07:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/31\/a-very-good-question\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T00:08:25","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T07:08:25","slug":"a-very-good-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/31\/a-very-good-question\/","title":{"rendered":"A very good question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aEsdtg9ZZUM\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aEsdtg9ZZUM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nIf a prospective candidate can&#8217;t answer this question directly and succinctly, that candidate should be disqualified from further consideration.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhy can&#8217;t reporters ask questions like this on a daily basis? (Oh, and demand answers?) There is no rule that says reporters have to be nice &#8211; and indeed, if we&#8217;ve learned anything over the past 6 years, it should be that reporters and politicians should not be on friendly terms&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhat question would you ask a potential presidential candidate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a prospective candidate can&#8217;t answer this question directly and succinctly, that candidate should be disqualified from further consideration. Why can&#8217;t reporters ask questions like this on a daily basis? (Oh, and demand answers?) There is no rule that says reporters have to be nice &#8211; and indeed, if we&#8217;ve learned anything over the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}