{"id":149,"date":"2010-02-19T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/02\/19\/decide-first-research-later\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:27:12","slug":"decide-first-research-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/02\/19\/decide-first-research-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Decide First, Research Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats legal infrastructure must be congenitally flawed.&#160; Everyone thought Indiana Democrats and Evan Bayh were so smart to time his announcement so that only the party apparatchik could coalesce quickly around the Democratic nominee.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/article\/20100219\/NEWS05\/2190342\/Democrats-choice-for-Senate-is-put-on-hold\">Not so fast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Parker had hoped to call a meeting of the Democratic Party&#8217;s state central committee&#8217;s 32 voting members as early as next week. But after party attorneys researched state law, they discovered they could not fill the ballot vacancy until after the primary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Only after they decide on a strategy do the Dems research to see if it\u2019s legal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats legal infrastructure must be congenitally flawed.&#160; Everyone thought Indiana Democrats and Evan Bayh were so smart to time his announcement so that only the party apparatchik could coalesce quickly around the Democratic nominee.&#160; Not so fast. Parker had hoped to call a meeting of the Democratic Party&#8217;s state central committee&#8217;s 32 voting members&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/02\/19\/decide-first-research-later\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}