{"id":3133,"date":"2008-04-23T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/meet-this-sites-newest-columnist\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T17:40:00","slug":"meet-this-sites-newest-columnist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/meet-this-sites-newest-columnist\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet this site&#8217;s newest columnist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SA90qckvqRI\/AAAAAAAAFic\/qiJPPvCHJ6w\/s1600-h\/Scarantino,+Jim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SA90qckvqRI\/AAAAAAAAFic\/qiJPPvCHJ6w\/s200\/Scarantino,+Jim.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192497167955110162\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet Jim Scarantino, this site\u2019s newest columnist.<\/p>\n<p>He has been recognized as one of the country\u2019s best political columnists by the <a href=\"http:\/\/aan.org\/alternative\/Aan\/ViewPerson?oid=oid%3A189126\" target=\"_blank\">American Association of Alternative Newsweeklies<\/a>. His work has been published in more than 50 newspapers. He has been a guest on the Oliver North and Alan Colmes radio shows and is a regular panelist on KNME-TV\u2019s \u201cIn Focus.\u201d Jim also writes a column, \u201cThe Real Side,\u201d for <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s alternative paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklyalibi.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Weekly Alibi<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With that r\u00e9sum\u00e9, I\u2019m honored to have Jim join this site and expect that, through his columns, he will make strong contributions to the conversation about <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">His column, \u201cOff the Leash,\u201d will run on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month beginning tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211; Heath Haussamen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Jim Scarantino, this site\u2019s newest columnist. He has been recognized as one of the country\u2019s best political columnists by the American Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. His work has been published in more than 50 newspapers. He has been a guest on the Oliver North and Alan Colmes radio shows and is a regular panelist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarantino-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}