{"id":15440,"date":"2024-03-19T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15440"},"modified":"2024-03-18T23:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T04:51:47","slug":"boomers-boomers-boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/03\/boomers-boomers-boomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Boomers, Boomers, Boomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/government-of-the-old-by-the-old\">In my latest column<\/a>, I look with dismay at yet another presidential election matchup between candidates born in the 1940s. The only one since 1992 that didn&#8217;t include at least one was 2008 (McCain, a Silent, vs. Obama, a young Boomer).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/government-of-the-old-by-the-old\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15441\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/boomercolumn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/boomercolumn.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/boomercolumn-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/boomercolumn-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest column, I look with dismay at yet another presidential election matchup between candidates born in the 1940s. The only one since 1992 that didn&#8217;t include at least one was 2008 (McCain, a Silent, vs. Obama, a young &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/03\/boomers-boomers-boomers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15442,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440\/revisions\/15442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}