{"id":241,"date":"2008-10-31T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=241"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:28","slug":"whats-wrong-with-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Wrong With Confidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read CNN&#8217;s web page, just now, and found the following, re the US presidential election:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/ELECTION\/2008\/candidates\/john.mccain.html\">McCain<\/a>, meanwhile, continues to hammer his opponent for exuding confidence in the final days of the campaign. He has been repeating a standard campaign line recently, saying Obama is &#8220;measuring the drapes&#8221; for the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My immediate reaction was: <i>What&#8217;s wrong with confidence?<\/i> I don&#8217;t understand. If you think you&#8217;ll win or, God forbid, if you think you&#8217;re right, what&#8217;s so terrible about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read CNN&#8217;s web page, just now, and found the following, re the US presidential election: McCain, meanwhile, continues to hammer his opponent for exuding confidence in the final days of the campaign. He has been repeating a standard campaign line recently, saying Obama is &#8220;measuring the drapes&#8221; for the White House. My immediate reaction was: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}