{"id":14,"date":"2012-11-03T08:31:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T12:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/how-do-we-measure-the-worth-of-an-elected-leader"},"modified":"2012-11-03T08:31:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T12:31:10","slug":"how-do-we-measure-the-worth-of-an-elected-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"How do we measure the worth of an elected leader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning, we are impressed by his manner and his ability to say what we want to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, however, we have to live with what he produces.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what we have from the last four years of Obama leadership:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef017c330f10d5970b-800wi\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Foodstampgrowth-600x410\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bfac253ef017c330f10d5970b\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef017c330f10d5970b-500wi\" title=\"Foodstampgrowth-600x410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For every person added to the Job Rolls since January 2009, 75 people were added to Food Stamp rolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning, we are impressed by his manner and his ability to say what we want to hear. Ultimately, however, we have to live with what he produces. Here is what we have from the last four years of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=14\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}