{"id":124,"date":"2004-10-01T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/index.php\/the-first-presidential-debate\/"},"modified":"2005-03-17T20:13:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T01:13:04","slug":"the-first-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/01\/the-first-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Presidential Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to comment much on this, but a couple things I noticed at the debate last night.  <\/p>\n<p>1. Why can&#8217;t they talk to each other?  What I saw was no debate, it was just two guys answering questions.<\/p>\n<p>2. Why can&#8217;t the audience applaud?  What&#8217;s the point of even having a live audience if they&#8217;re commanded to stay absolutely quiet.  I can see limiting applause to a few seconds but silencing them?<\/p>\n<p>3. Why is there a chosen topic that they can&#8217;t stray from?  After 30 minutes of hearing about Iraq I was ready to move on to other topics.  I&#8217;m aware that other things will be discussed in future debates, but if they know ahead of time exactly what to prepare for, then their answers aren&#8217;t based on what they already know, they&#8217;re based on scripted answers they prepared for in the days before the debate. That&#8217;s not real life and it&#8217;s not how things will be when one of them is elected to president.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;d like to see a true debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to comment much on this, but a couple things I noticed at the debate last night. 1. Why can&#8217;t they talk to each other? What I saw was no debate, it was just two guys answering questions. 2. Why can&#8217;t the audience applaud? What&#8217;s the point of even having a live audience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","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":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-20","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}