{"id":33,"date":"2004-05-07T01:56:49","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T01:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2012-05-12T02:30:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T02:30:12","slug":"warning-the-following-involves-politics-and-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"warning: the following involves politics and math.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Math Against Tyranny\" href=\"http:\/\/mikemiller.net\/math_against_tyranny.html\">Math Against Tyranny<\/a> takes a look at why the Electoral College is a good idea.  It was written back in 1996, so the 2000 debacle isn&#8217;t mentioned, but it&#8217;s still very interesting.  But heed the warning in the subject line.  However, the article does use sports as a basis for its argument.  Which is pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math Against Tyranny takes a look at why the Electoral College is a good idea. It was written back in 1996, so the 2000 debacle isn&#8217;t mentioned, but it&#8217;s still very interesting. But heed the warning in the subject line. However, the article does use sports as a basis for its argument. Which is pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}