{"id":856,"date":"2008-04-30T13:34:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T20:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/30\/we-get-the-leaders-we-deserve\/"},"modified":"2008-04-30T13:34:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T20:34:48","slug":"we-get-the-leaders-we-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/we-get-the-leaders-we-deserve\/","title":{"rendered":"We get the leaders we deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s election day tomorrow in London and it&#8217;s been sort of entertaining and depressing at the same time to follow the campaign (I&#8217;ve been keeping track of the one on the other side of the pond through the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/bagnewsnotes.typepad.com\/bagnews\/\">Bagnews notes<\/a>).<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s almost like we&#8217;re collectively confused about the difference between entertainment and politics.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pixelsumo\/2454484950\/\">Chris&#8217;s excellent links on this issue here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s election day tomorrow in London and it&#8217;s been sort of entertaining and depressing at the same time to follow the campaign (I&#8217;ve been keeping track of the one on the other side of the pond through the excellent Bagnews notes). It&#8217;s almost like we&#8217;re collectively confused about the difference between entertainment and politics. Chris&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/we-get-the-leaders-we-deserve\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We get the leaders we deserve<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-dO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}