{"id":484,"date":"2008-09-10T03:48:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T08:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2008-09-10T03:48:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T08:48:15","slug":"hows-this-for-elitist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s this for &#8220;elitist&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.geocities.com\/quotationoftheday\/info.html\">Quotation of the Day<\/a> list mailing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska I was mayor of my hometown&#8230;. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sarah Palin, U.S. Republican Vice-presidential nominee, mocking Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama&#8217;s experience as a community organizer.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Palin&#8217;s comment, some person unknown quipped &#8220;Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor.&#8221; The slogan quickly appeared on t-shirts offered for sale on-line.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Sigh*.  Is it too late to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelpalinforpresident.com\">nominate someone else<\/a>?  I&#8217;m sure he wouldn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/9\/8\/20552\/56258\/308\/591588\">charge rape victims for their own rape kits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Quotation of the Day list mailing: &#8220;Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska I was mayor of my hometown&#8230;. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=484\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}