{"id":7824,"date":"2012-09-19T04:52:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T04:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7824"},"modified":"2012-09-19T04:58:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T04:58:37","slug":"rebuke-of-the-robotic-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/rebuke-of-the-robotic-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuke of the robotic candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been heard to say that perhaps we need a robot president, and Mitt Romney might be just the right robot. But I have to admit that <b>robots just don&#8217;t make good candidates.<\/b> The robot could still win because of a &#8220;Black Swan&#8221; or the grinding of the negative fundamentals, but he&#8217;s not helping himself. Disappointing. I guess I&#8217;ll have to look to the human race in the future when it comes to be appealing to an electorate of humans.<\/p>\n<p><b>Addendum:<\/b> I want to be clear on one issue: <b>people are overreacting right now.<\/b> Romney still has a realistic shot to win. But it is a longer shot than he had one week ago. The right direction\/wrong direction measure is not looking good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been heard to say that perhaps we need a robot president, and Mitt Romney might be just the right robot. But I have to admit that robots just don&#8217;t make good candidates. The robot could still win because of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/rebuke-of-the-robotic-candidate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7827,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions\/7827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}