{"id":1321,"date":"2003-06-25T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2003-06-26T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/25\/300minute\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:36:15","slug":"300minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/25\/300minute\/","title":{"rendered":"$300\/minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14372,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sfgate.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/article.cgi?file=\\\/c\\\/a\\\/2003\\\/06\\\/22\\\/MN271984.DTL&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.sfgate.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/article.cgi?file=\\\/c\\\/a\\\/2003\\\/06\\\/22\\\/MN271984.DTL&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14373,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/18minutegap.blogspot.com\\\/2003_06_22_18minutegap_archive.html#105634454764067374&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060329153259\\\/http:\\\/\\\/18minutegap.blogspot.com\\\/2003_06_22_18minutegap_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 21:44:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 04:37:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 04:37:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14374,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.deanforamerica.com\\\/archives\\\/000494.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230928231437\\\/http:\\\/\\\/blog.deanforamerica.com\\\/archives\\\/000494.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 21:44:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 04:37:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 04:37:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14375,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.xoverboard.com\\\/2003_06.html#000053&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050204075629\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.xoverboard.com:80\\\/2003_06.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 21:44:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 04:38:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 04:38:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2003\/06\/22\/MN271984.DTL\" title=\"Bush raising wads of money\">San Francisco Gate<\/a>, the Bush re-election campaign is gearing up to spend <em>at least<\/em> \\$426,640 a day, seven days a week, between now and November 2004.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s \\$17,776.67 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Or \\$296.27 &#8212; 3\/4 of my weekly income &#8212; <em>every minute<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/18minutegap.blogspot.com\/2003_06_22_18minutegap_archive.html#105634454764067374\" title=\"18 1\/2 Minute Gap: One dollar, one vote?\">18 1\/2 Minute Gap<\/a> pointed out, more money every day than 99% of Americans earn in a year.<\/p>\n<p>Might this be a good time to mention that this would be an excellent time to donate to your preferred Democratic candidate (like, oh, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.deanforamerica.com\/archives\/000494.html\" title=\"Only 5 Days Left\">Howard Dean<\/a>)? I thought so.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xoverboard.com\/2003_06.html#000053\" title=\"Talk about re-circulating money back into the economy\">August Pollak<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the San Francisco Gate, the Bush re-election campaign is gearing up to spend at least $426,640 a day, seven days a week, between now and November 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}