{"id":16160,"date":"2004-02-05T10:16:43","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T15:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/02\/05\/1765.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:20","slug":"the-rhetorica-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/02\/05\/the-rhetorica-network\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rhetorica Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gentle Readers, I suspect if you like reading this Tohu Bohu, you are likely to enjoy reading <a href=\"http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/\">Rhetorica<\/a>, a blog by Andrew Cline. <a href=\"http:\/\/rhetorica.net\/archives\/002260.html\">This morning&#8217;s note<\/a> is about the peculiarity of the importance, in presidential campaigns, of hundreds of thousands of people watching events that a few hundred people experience. &#8220;I claim that it is the television audience that counts because the small number of rally attendees are used as political props. I mean no disrespect to the candidate or the props by this statement.&#8221;\n<p>I do think that people are unlikely to really enjoy (and get the hang of) political participation by following a presidential race every four years. I know it&#8217;s time-consuming, but going to a mayoral rally, or Congressional candidate debate, or even state house or school board is a better way to get started. Of course, it&#8217;s like going to AA baseball; it&#8217;s cheaper, you sit closer, and the parking is easier, but you are less likely to be dazzled by how good they are.\n\n<p>Oh, and yesterday Prof. Cline was talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=1764\">the same thing I was<\/a>, which is pretty cool for me.\n\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentle Readers, I suspect if you like reading this Tohu Bohu, you are likely to enjoy reading Rhetorica, a blog by Andrew Cline. This morning\u2019s note is about the peculiarity of the importance, in presidential campaigns, of hundreds of thousands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16908,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160\/revisions\/16908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}