{"id":1328,"date":"2008-03-10T21:39:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2008-03-10T21:39:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:39:55","slug":"experience_who_needs_experienc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/10\/experience_who_needs_experienc\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience? Who Needs Experience?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting bit of food for thought:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Suppose you had to choose between two Presidential candidates, one of whom had spent 20 years in Congress plus had considerable other relevant experience and the other of whom had about half a dozen years in the Illinois state legislature and 2 years in Congress. Which one do you think would make a better President? If you chose #1, congratulations, you picked James Buchanan over Abraham Lincoln.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for that campaign tactic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/evp2008\/Info\/experience.html\">Source<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scalzi.com\/whatever\/?p=478\">via<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting bit of food for thought: Suppose you had to choose between two Presidential candidates, one of whom had spent 20 years in Congress plus had considerable other relevant experience and the other of whom had about half a dozen years in the Illinois state legislature and 2 years in Congress. Which one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}