{"id":1008,"date":"2022-10-20T03:57:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T03:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:49:14","slug":"debates-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/20\/debates-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Debates? Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-HRpic-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1010\" width=\"134\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-HRpic-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-HRpic-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-HRpic-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-HRpic-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-HRpic.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><figcaption>Newcomers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Newcomers and NO Comers&#8230;.Ours was the first debate. The litmus test of what needs to be improved. The hosts and the venue was great. Thanks PBS\/AETN for your courtesy and professionalism.<br><br>      How many of you have heard the term, (or know by experience) ~~says to yourself&#8230;.. &#8220;I think better on my feet!&#8221; Well, hell, SO DO I!&#8230;..We didn&#8217;t have the option to stand. So there is that. I can say more from the keyboard. This is being in the batters box for a fast pitch, and swinging at the 95mph slider with a pickle ball paddle. That was my first debate&#8230;&#8230;Ever.  I have extreme anxiety and held my ground. I was wanting to quote Edgar A. Poe ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcomers and NO Comers&#8230;.Ours was the first debate. The litmus test of what needs to be improved. The hosts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/debat.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}