{"id":108,"date":"2008-06-18T17:19:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T21:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2010-05-07T08:39:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T12:39:44","slug":"joe-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/18\/joe-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guy gets it&#8230; Unfortunately none of our elected leaders seem to.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZPch2k63uj4&amp;hl=en\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZPch2k63uj4&amp;hl=en\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Pass it on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy gets it&#8230; Unfortunately none of our elected leaders seem to. Pass it on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,26,9,7],"tags":[47],"class_list":{"0":"post-108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-culture","7":"category-economy","8":"category-life","9":"category-politics","10":"tag-2008-elections","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-1K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3653,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/its-election-day-get-out-and-vote\/","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s Election Day&#8230; Get Out and Vote!","author":"Jeff","date":"November 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This is one of most important elections in American History, it is not as John Podhoretz claims a referendum on Barack Obama and his party. 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