{"id":8191,"date":"2023-08-08T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/?p=8191"},"modified":"2023-08-08T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:30:12","slug":"i-actually-want-to-know-what-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/2023\/08\/08\/i-actually-want-to-know-what-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"I Actually Want to Know What You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This website isn\u2019t lip service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m apolitical.  I feel like I have to repeat this over and over.  The ridiculous divide in our country is mostly illusory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have never and likely will never endorse a political candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This candidate has about a 0.0000003% chance of winning the primary.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t ever remember a candidate with which I have agreed more.  This isn\u2019t an endorsement, however realize this!  I have yet to hear a single statement from Vivek Ramaswami with which I disagree.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I want to know what you think.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you feel about the undermining of all human institutions?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you running away from terribly ideas or towards good ones.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have but one agenda- the truth.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reach out and let me know what you think.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We love each of you, and this post is for every single one of you privileged enough to see it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019ve weeded through so much nonsense to get where you are today.  Thanks for that.  It\u2019s not irrelevant, and neither are you.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Best regards,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Dan, a.k.a. smAsh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy: What It Means To Be an American\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0WvMqX9mWJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website isn\u2019t lip service. I\u2019m apolitical. I feel like I have to repeat this over and over. The ridiculous divide in our country is mostly illusory. I have never and likely will never endorse a political candidate. This candidate has about a 0.0000003% chance of winning the primary. I don\u2019t ever remember a candidate &#8230; <a title=\"I Actually Want to Know What You Think\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/2023\/08\/08\/i-actually-want-to-know-what-you-think\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Actually Want to Know What You Think<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","pmpro-has-access"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}