{"id":1097,"date":"2008-09-04T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2008-09-04T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T18:35:00","slug":"quick-takes-sarah-palin-american-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/09\/04\/quick-takes-sarah-palin-american-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes: Sarah Palin, American Idol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/images\/convention_rnc\/palinspeechprimary.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 152px;height: 115px\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/images\/convention_rnc\/palinspeechprimary.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Palin as our American Idol Candidate<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>I get it. Palin is our &#8220;American Idol&#8221; candidate. When I listen to the people on the street interviews, or chatfests with Republican girlbloggers, which, believe me, is taxing as hell, everyone is like, &#8220;well she shows us that a <em>real<\/em> person can be president.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the problem: while people are caught up in Palin as &#8220;American Idol: VP Edition&#8221; they might well miss the &#8220;real reality,&#8221; which is that Palin is more Bush than Bush.<\/p>\n<p>-Virginia Rutter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/images\/convention_rnc\/palinspeechprimary.jpg\">Image credit.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palin as our American Idol Candidate I get it. Palin is our &#8220;American Idol&#8221; candidate. When I listen to the people on the street interviews, or chatfests with Republican girlbloggers, which, believe me, is taxing as hell, everyone is like, &#8220;well she shows us that a real person can be president.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the problem: while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}