{"id":5995,"date":"2009-08-20T23:45:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T06:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/08\/the-republican-party-is-turning-into-a-cult\/"},"modified":"2009-08-20T23:45:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T06:45:45","slug":"the-republican-party-is-turning-into-a-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/08\/the-republican-party-is-turning-into-a-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/08\/images.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"images.jpeg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/johann-hari\/the-republican-party-is-t_b_262594.html\">\n<p>Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarized by the comedian Bill Maher: &#8220;The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[From <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/johann-hari\/the-republican-party-is-t_b_262594.html\" ><cite>Johann Hari: The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/08\/images.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"images.jpeg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/>   Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected.   It has best been summarized by the comedian Bill Maher: &#8220;The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1yH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}