{"id":168,"date":"2003-01-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2003-01-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-23T12:00:00","slug":"enter-the-jack-rabbit-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/23\/enter-the-jack-rabbit-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter the Jackrabbit (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign trail journal <a href=\"http:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/?tag=enter-the-jack-rabbit\">Enter the Jackrabbit<\/a> has been dragged back out of the closet. It was written in notebooks, on scraps of paper and on the backs of napkins during one weekend of the 1998 congressional campaigns. The notes were later condensed into a set of emails that I habitually sent out under the title \u201cThe Viper Pit\u201d (a reference to Washington D.C.).<\/p>\n<p><em>May 18 2003<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<\/strong> \u2013 Re-reading <a href=\"http:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/?tag=enter-the-jack-rabbit\">Enter the Jackrabbit<\/a> tonight one<br \/>\nthing in particular stuck me:  the characterization of Adam in Part 2.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt was one of the most neurotic young men I have met in my<br \/>\nentire life. What\u2019s worse, he\u2019s a staunch partisan, of the Democratic<br \/>\npersuasion, and has somehow set his eyes on me being critical to the<br \/>\nsurvival of the Faith on our campus.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ok, so that\u2019s probably true. But it\u2019s also true that he has one of the most incredible memories I\u2019ve ever encountered. Evidently I wasn\u2019t very charitable at 3am. Yeah, he was a little weird. Weird, but totally brilliant. I lost touch with Adam long ago, but I fully expect him to show up in the Kerry White House next year. If he doesn\u2019t, so much the worse for Kerry and the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign trail journal Enter the Jackrabbit has been dragged back out of the closet. It was written in notebooks, on scraps of paper and on the backs of napkins during one weekend of the 1998 congressional campaigns. The notes were later condensed into a set of emails that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[15,16,17],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viper-pit","tag-electioneering","tag-enter-the-jackrabbit","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}