{"id":8488,"date":"2010-02-05T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2010-07-07T20:04:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:04:19","slug":"when-the-spell-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8488","title":{"rendered":"When The Spell Is Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Store <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/blogs\/doug-heye\/2010\/02\/04\/forget-polls-heres-tangible-proof-the-obama-honeymoon-is-over.html\">closes:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This time last year, the Obama Store was teeming with customers. Ideally situated in the basement of Washington\u2019s Union Station, the store was filled with consumers eager to buy anything with Obama\u2019s likeness while others took pictures of the life-size cut-outs of the president and first lady. Now, the Obama Store is boarded up.<\/p>\n<p>How quickly things change in a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This follows almost exactly a year after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4141\">&#8220;Obama 1260&#8221;, Washington DC&#8217;s all-liberal talk station, switched formats &#8211; to conservative talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta hand it to the late proprietors; they certainly saw a trend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama Store was capitalism at its most brilliant rawness; find a market and exploit it quickly. The store made possible one-stop shopping for all of your tacky Obama merchandise needs. T-shirts! Hats! Calendars! Hand-warmers! Keychains! It was like something out of Spaceballs (\u201cObama: The Flame Thrower! The kids love this one.\u201d). The store carried every imaginable product with the words \u201cObama\u201d and \u201cCommemorative,\u201d except, notably, the Obama Chia Pet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama got 93 percent of the vote in DC.\u00a0 That may have been more than even in the Fifth District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Store closes: This time last year, the Obama Store was teeming with customers. Ideally situated in the basement of Washington\u2019s Union Station, the store was filled with consumers eager to buy anything with Obama\u2019s likeness while others took pictures of the life-size cut-outs of the president and first lady. Now, the Obama Store [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488","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=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11879,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions\/11879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}