{"id":4650,"date":"2005-07-09T08:01:48","date_gmt":"2005-07-09T12:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4650.html"},"modified":"2005-07-09T08:01:48","modified_gmt":"2005-07-09T12:01:48","slug":"filling-in-for-morbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/filling-in-for-morbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Filling in for Morbo&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Morbo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4596.html\">mentioned<\/a> last week, he&#8217;s in France this week and won&#8217;t be sharing his words of wisdom today. He will be returning for his usual stint next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>But never fear, I&#8217;ve found a very capable sub for today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ac.wwu.edu\/~stephan\/\">Ed Stephan<\/a>, whom you all know and love from the comments section, has graciously agreed to help out in Morbo&#8217;s absence. <\/p>\n<p>For those of you not familiar with Ed, he&#8217;s a recently retired professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wa. He&#8217;s been involved in Dem politics for quite while, including having run some campaigns in California. (Ed, as some of you may also recall, did a terrific job filling in for me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/date\/2005\/6\/10\/\">on June 10<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Check back shortly for some terrific posts. Rumor has it, Ed is going to have some nifty graphs today, so you&#8217;ll definitely want to stick around and take a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Morbo mentioned last week, he&#8217;s in France this week and won&#8217;t be sharing his words of wisdom today. He will be returning for his usual stint next Saturday. But never fear, I&#8217;ve found a very capable sub for today. Ed Stephan, whom you all know and love from the comments section, has graciously agreed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}