
{"id":2424,"date":"2008-04-24T07:31:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T15:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/04\/24\/letter-from-the-editor-%e2%80%9cin-play%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T07:31:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T15:31:23","slug":"letter-from-the-editor-%e2%80%9cin-play%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/04\/24\/letter-from-the-editor-%e2%80%9cin-play%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the Editor: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In play\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those are the words being used to describe North Carolina by pundits across the country after Hillary Clinton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s win in the Pennsylvania primary. Anyone who kept an eye on the race for the delegates of that state knows that as it wound down, things got downright nasty. Accusations flew, ads got muddy and ABC debate viewers were witnesses to one of the most god-awful performances ever by our blow-dried press corps.<\/p>\n<p>So kindly \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to all the campaign types, the ardent supporters, the sharp-knifed surrogates and especially to all you giant egos in cable news \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we offer this advice: Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you bring that junk down here. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s weak, and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do democracy one whit of good.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Sure, bring your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A\u00e2\u20ac\u009d game to the Tar Heel state, but leave the trash talk at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those are the words being used to describe North Carolina by pundits across the country after Hillary Clinton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s win in the Pennsylvania primary. Anyone who kept an eye on the race for the delegates of that state knows that as it wound down, things got downright nasty. Accusations flew, ads got muddy and ABC debate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}