{"id":3158,"date":"2008-08-26T06:11:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T11:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2008-08-26T06:11:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T11:11:25","slug":"stereotypes-reinforced-while-u-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3158","title":{"rendered":"Stereotypes Reinforced While U Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Paul Demko, a couple of Obama supporters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaindependent.com\/5317\/dnc-day-one-obamamobile\">drove <strong>2,200 miles<\/strong> from Santa Cruz to Denver in a car<\/a> completely covered in Obama stickers&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0While picking up my press credentials I\u00a0came across\u00a0this\u00a0<strong>Volvo stationwagon<\/strong>\u00a0parked in front of the Hampton Inn &#038; Suites (doing double duty as the press epicenter for the Democratic Party). Sisters Samantha and Annie Woods drove the vehicle 2,200 miles from Santa Cruz, California.\u00a0Most impressive: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obamamobileusa.com\/Site\/Welcome.html\"><strong><font color=\"#3f4f21\">Obamamobile<\/font><\/strong><\/a> lacks any air\u00a0conditioning.<span id=\"more-5317\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;thereby confirming a number of stereotypes.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Democratic women are lousy navigators.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.com\/maps?1c=Santa+Cruz+&#038;1s=CA&#038;2c=Denver+&#038;2s=CO\">Mapquest shows the route<\/a> is really more like 1,200 miles.<\/li>\n<li>A <em>Volvo wagon.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>A Volvo wagon gets, what?\u00a0 15 miles to the gallon?\u00a0 Way to save energy, Clairol Twins.<\/li>\n<li>Obama stickers went for, what, a buck a pop?\u00a0 Nope &#8211; no dissipate patricians here.<\/li>\n<li>I repeat:\u00a0 a <strong>Volvo wagon<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Oh, lord, do I wish I were there with a camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Paul Demko, a couple of Obama supporters drove 2,200 miles from Santa Cruz to Denver in a car completely covered in Obama stickers&#8230;: \u00a0While picking up my press credentials I\u00a0came across\u00a0this\u00a0Volvo stationwagon\u00a0parked in front of the Hampton Inn &#038; Suites (doing double duty as the press epicenter for the Democratic Party). Sisters Samantha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}