{"id":4844,"date":"2012-10-11T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2012-10-11T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T20:58:08","slug":"notes-from-the-heartland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4844","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Heartland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/the-world\/2012\/10\/missing-mitt-in-iowa\/\">John McDermott<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Physics suggests that pulling into a residential driveway at 50 miles per hour from a state highway is a bad idea. About one-eight of the Chevy makes it on to Magnolia. It soon joins the majority of the car hurtling towards the bottom of a ditch, propelled by the combined forces of spin, gravity and incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>This is not ideal. I\u2019m in a corpse of an automobile six feet below a gravel path. The engine sounds like a helicopter scything through a migratory flock of sparrows. Fox News confirms that Mitt Romney has begun speaking. Redemption was an adroit turn away.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, this is Iowa. A pick-up truck pulls over next to the ditch. \u201cDid you mean to do that?\u201d asks the driver, throwing doubt on America\u2019s trouble with sarcasm. I explain that I am collateral damage in Mr Romney\u2019s war on punctuality. \u201cThat\u2019s a lot of trouble to get yourself in for politics,\u201d he says.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McDermott: Physics suggests that pulling into a residential driveway at 50 miles per hour from a state highway is a bad idea. About one-eight of the Chevy makes it on to Magnolia. It soon joins the majority of the car hurtling towards the bottom of a ditch, propelled by the combined forces of spin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}