{"id":639,"date":"2007-07-30T13:25:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T17:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2007-07-30T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T17:31:06","slug":"by-all-means-pay-attention-to-the-woman-behind-the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2007\/07\/by-all-means-pay-attention-to-the-woman-behind-the-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"By all means, pay attention to the woman behind the curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on where you did your survey, if you stopped 100 people on the street and asked them each to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton you&#8217;d probably get answers ranging from competent to hard nosed to cold to cast iron bitch (like I said, it depends on where you do your survey).  That&#8217;s not the woman revealed in a series of letters, summarized in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/29\/us\/politics\/29letter.html?ex=1343448000&amp;en=9f6c51ea17def8a1&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> today, though.<\/p>\n<p>The college student revealed in letters to a high school friend is &#8220;&#8230;by turns angst-ridden and prosaic, glib and brooding, anguished and ebullient&#8230;&#8221; who suffers from all the awakenings, self doubt, and yearning those of us with even a smidgen of self-awareness are forced to cope with.<\/p>\n<p>These letters make her human; they take away the illusion that if you woke her up at 3am on a random Wednesday and told her that polar bears had just become a nuclear power and were holding the state of Alaska hostage she&#8217;d be able to whip a 10 point recovery plan out of her bedside table without a blink.  <em>The New York Times<\/em>, in my opinion, just made Hillary Clinton electable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on where you did your survey, if you stopped 100 people on the street and asked them each to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton you&#8217;d probably get answers ranging from competent to hard nosed to cold to cast iron bitch (like I said, it depends on where you do your survey). That&#8217;s not the woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}