{"id":374,"date":"2008-01-02T16:07:55","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T21:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/thanks-for-the-great-comments-in-07\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T16:07:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T21:07:55","slug":"thanks-for-the-great-comments-in-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/thanks-for-the-great-comments-in-07\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for the Great Comments in &#8217;07!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I greatly appreciate the folks who added their thoughts and wit to this blog over the past 12 months.\u00a0\u00a0We&#8217;ve had a hoot of a time, despite\u00a0the\u00a0political BS flooding this nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Laughter might not be the best medicine, but it is a good antidote to\u00a0the servility that pervades the media and contemporary political life.\u00a0And I&#8217;ve learned a lot from many of the folks who took the time to add their observations here.<\/p>\n<p>The political highlight of 2007: At least Bush did not formally declare martial law.<\/p>\n<p>2008 is going to be damned entertaining,\u00a0maybe even more fun than a circus combined with a trainwreck.<\/p>\n<p>What do others see as the political highlight of 2007?\u00a0 (I&#8217;m hoping Ron Paul will be the political highlight of 2008&#8230;..)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I greatly appreciate the folks who added their thoughts and wit to this blog over the past 12 months.\u00a0\u00a0We&#8217;ve had a hoot of a time, despite\u00a0the\u00a0political BS flooding this nation.\u00a0 Laughter might not be the best medicine, but it is a good antidote to\u00a0the servility that pervades the media and contemporary political life.\u00a0And I&#8217;ve learned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659,6,10,7,656],"class_list":{"0":"post-374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-bovard","9":"tag-bush","10":"tag-dictatorship"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thanks for the Great Comments in &#039;07! 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