{"id":929,"date":"2010-07-26T09:46:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=929"},"modified":"2010-07-26T09:46:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:46:57","slug":"verdict-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/verdict-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"VERDICT WATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning. Final arguments begin in the Blagojevich trial, and it could go to the jury as early as today.<br \/>\nBlagojevich not testifying after all these months of screaming that he couldn\u2019t wait to, was something of a surprise. But his attorneys presenting no defense at all was, for most trial-watchers, a HUGE surprise.<br \/>\nChicago journalist Eric Zorn didn\u2019t think so, though. He had predicted it. As we await the verdict, read Zorn\u2019s explanation of how he saw this coming, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chicagotribune.com\/news_columnists_ezorn\/2010\/07\/howididit.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning. Final arguments begin in the Blagojevich trial, and it could go to the jury as early as today. Blagojevich not testifying after all these months of screaming that he couldn\u2019t wait to, was something of a surprise. But his attorneys presenting no defense at all was, for most trial-watchers, a HUGE surprise. Chicago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,36,37,58,65,80,111,117,123,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-blagojevich","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-tribune","11":"tag-eric-zorn","12":"tag-governor","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-obama","15":"tag-rezko","16":"tag-sam-adams","17":"tag-trial"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}