{"id":3345,"date":"2008-09-22T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2008-09-21T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T01:24:10","slug":"wasilla-alaska-wheys-in-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3345","title":{"rendered":"Wasilla, Alaska Wheys in for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rally in Wasilla, Alaska drew an impressive number of Obama supporters.<\/p>\n<p>60.000 (I added the extra zeroes so as to be supportive) Obamanistas clumped for a show of support of the Junior Senator from Illinois.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontiersman.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/22\/local_news\/doc48d5cf866a0ad766112707.txt\">Witty signs and shouts of praise for Obama came from the revelers<\/a>. And although those passing by were generally cordial, a few one-finger salutes and derogatory comments were hurled from those motoring past on the Parks Highway at the intersection of Crusey Street.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did email just arrive in Alaska? I&#8217;m pretty sure we got it here in <em>Minnesohta <\/em>in the 20th century.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Using 21st century connectivity, Fisher said she began e-mailing friends about the planned corner rally, which eventually blossomed into a mass e-mail announcement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, there you have it. No one will be accusing those wiley Alaskan liberals, all sixty of them, of not knowing how to use email.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During a recent symposium in Willow, nearly 55 mushers from the area threw their support behind Obama<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Shot In the Dark first: The words <em>symposium<\/em> and <em>mushers<\/em> in the same sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so 60 folks plus 55 mushers is&#8230;um&#8230;carry the one&#8230;.yikes! That&#8217;s over a hundred!<\/p>\n<p>Alaska appears not to be at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rally in Wasilla, Alaska drew an impressive number of Obama supporters. 60.000 (I added the extra zeroes so as to be supportive) Obamanistas clumped for a show of support of the Junior Senator from Illinois. Witty signs and shouts of praise for Obama came from the revelers. And although those passing by were generally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}