{"id":191,"date":"2008-08-19T20:44:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T02:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=191"},"modified":"2008-08-19T20:44:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T02:44:14","slug":"our-very-own-monte-bute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/08\/19\/our-very-own-monte-bute\/","title":{"rendered":"our very own Monte Bute&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/opinion\/ci_10222695?nclick_check=1\">Pioneer Press<\/a> featured an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/opinion\/ci_10222695?nclick_check=1\">opinion piece<\/a> from our very own Monte Bute, author of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesocietypages.org\/monte\">A Backstage Sociologist<\/a>,&#8217; a blog housed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesocietypages.org\">Contexts magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The piece, titled &#8216;Obama lawn sign policy slows down bandwagon,&#8217; begins&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few days ago I received a letter from Barack Obama, pleading that I &#8220;rush a generous contribution&#8221; to him. I placed the return envelope in my checkbook.<\/p>\n<p>The same evening I got a call from his campaign asking me to door-knock on the weekend. I already had plans but I agreed to future weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Then I requested a lawn sign. The volunteer informed me that I could buy one at campaign headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Buy one? Purchased in bulk, a two-color lawn sign might cost the Obama campaign $1. I checked the Obama &#8217;08 Web site. They offer the budget-conscious supporter a generic 26-by-16-inch sign for $8. For those Obamites into conspicuous consumption, the site advertises a variety of 22-by-15-inch designer signs for $19.99. If this were an oil company, the Democrats would be accusing it of price gouging. As Kurt Vonnegut put it, &#8220;So it goes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/opinion\/ci_10222695?nclick_check=1\">Read the whole thing\u00a0right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday&#8217;s Pioneer Press featured an opinion piece from our very own Monte Bute, author of &#8216;A Backstage Sociologist,&#8217; a blog housed by Contexts magazine. The piece, titled &#8216;Obama lawn sign policy slows down bandwagon,&#8217; begins&#8230; A few days ago I received a letter from Barack Obama, pleading that I &#8220;rush a generous contribution&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39115],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}