{"id":4745,"date":"2008-09-01T05:23:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T12:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/01\/who-needs-third-parties\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T05:23:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T12:43:13","slug":"who-needs-third-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4745","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs Third Parties?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftycartoons.com\/who-needs-third-parties\/\"><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/debate_2008_450px.png' alt='Who needs third parties?' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just wrote a whole post about third parties &#8212; and about the current news from Texas, where Bob Barr is claiming that he&#8217;s the only Presidential candidate who followed the rules to be listed on the ballot &#8212; but to read it you&#8217;ll have to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartofthepossible.net\/2008\/09\/01\/should-bob-barr-be-the-only-candidate-on-the-texas-ballot-in-november\/\">The Art Of The Possible<\/a>, where I&#8217;ll be guest blogging every Monday for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote a whole post about third parties &#8212; and about the current news from Texas, where Bob Barr is claiming that he&#8217;s the only Presidential candidate who followed the rules to be listed on the ballot &#8212; but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4745\">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":[17,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}