{"id":9244,"date":"2019-03-15T10:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T09:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9244"},"modified":"2019-03-15T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T09:11:01","slug":"beta-orourke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9244\/","title":{"rendered":"Beta O&#8217;Rourke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got my fifth and final exam of the week today, so I&#8217;ll keep this short. In case anyone is interested they&#8217;ve gone well so far, mainly because I&#8217;m not dumb enough to fork out for an MBA then flunk the exams because I&#8217;m too lazy to study. My observations tell me that if I were 22 and my wealthy family were paying for it this might be the case, but alas it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s a video of presidential hopeful and darling of divorcee Democrats Beto O&#8217;Rourke:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Beto O\u2019Rourke speaks in Iowa after launching his 2020 bid: \u201cWe have the single greatest mechanism to call forth the genius of our fellow human beings. This democracy \u2026 can bring the ingenuity, the creativity, the resolve of an entire country\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vjldpxJmP9\">https:\/\/t.co\/vjldpxJmP9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Iwfs5Yr7TC\">pic.twitter.com\/Iwfs5Yr7TC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNPolitics\/status\/1106185918107521024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nHe comes across as one of those corporate types you meet who&#8217;s waited ten years longer than his peers for his first chance at management, and when it finally arrives he takes his subordinates to the pub and gives them a rousing speech without realising he&#8217;s addressing seasoned, middle-aged professionals not teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he looks and sounds an awful lot like my ex-boss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got my fifth and final exam of the week today, so I&#8217;ll keep this short. In case anyone is interested they&#8217;ve gone well so far, mainly because I&#8217;m not dumb enough to fork out for an MBA then flunk &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9244\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9245,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions\/9245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}