{"id":10011,"date":"2011-12-25T19:11:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T01:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=10011"},"modified":"2011-12-25T19:11:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T01:11:03","slug":"dropping-like-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=10011","title":{"rendered":"Dropping Like Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 19, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.txdemocrats.org\/2012\/\">I reported<\/a> two additional Democrats, Eric Roberson and John Morton, joining the Senate race because their names appeared on the official list of Democratic candidates, bringing the total of Democratic candidates to seven.<\/p>\n<p>However, the next day, Eric Roberson would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=9806\">off the list<\/a>, having filed for another race.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough, today the name of John Morton is no longer found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.txdemocrats.org\/2012\/\">the official list of Democratic candidates<\/a>. No explanation for his disappearance, though I have sent a query to the Texas Democratic Party for clarification.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves five democratic candidates: Sean Hubbard, Daniel Boone, Jason Gibson, Paul Sadler, and Addie Dainell Allen. <\/p>\n<p>At the current rate, all Democratic candidates will be off the ballot by mid-January&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 19, I reported two additional Democrats, Eric Roberson and John Morton, joining the Senate race because their names appeared on the official list of Democratic candidates, bringing the total of Democratic candidates to seven. However, the next day, Eric Roberson would be off the list, having filed for another race. Strangely enough, today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,12],"tags":[928,2864,2862,2861,945],"class_list":["post-10011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-elections","category-texas","tag-2012-election","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-texas","tag-texas-senate-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10011"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10018,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions\/10018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}