{"id":1477,"date":"2010-01-06T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/06\/live-blogging-the-state-of-the-state-populist-paterson\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:40:00","slug":"live-blogging-the-state-of-the-state-populist-paterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/06\/live-blogging-the-state-of-the-state-populist-paterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Live-blogging the State of the State: Populist Paterson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This State of the State address has to be seen as both a serious policy speech and the first, concrete step in Governor David Paterson&#8217;s bid for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>So far, my sense is that he&#8217;s hitting both notes pretty well, sounding passionate and plainspoken while also laying out some bitter medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Dispensing with the ceremonial mumbo-jumbo at the beginning of his speech struck my ear as a great rhetorical flourish. <\/p>\n<p>Can this accidental governor lay out a credible agenda of his own, one that will give him a reasonable shot at re-election? <\/p>\n<p>Read the full text of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny.gov\/governor\/press\/pdf\/BlueprinttoRebuildNY2.pdf\">Paterson&#8217;s State of the State Address<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This State of the State address has to be seen as both a serious policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}