{"id":3139,"date":"2008-10-22T07:07:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T14:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/10\/22\/patio-man\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T07:08:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T14:08:55","slug":"patio-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/10\/22\/patio-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Patio Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks has introduced us all to the crucial segment of the electorate that\u00c2\u00a0determines the course of American politics:\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azstarnet.com\/allheadlines\/263473\">Patio Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>For all the talk of plumbers and investment bankers, populists and elitists, Patio Man is still at the epicenter of national politics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Self-parody much?\u00c2\u00a0 But before you get your mock on, I think I know where he picked up on &#8220;Patio Man&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I believe Patio Man is the lost verse of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AWkSg7HB06U\">They Might Be Giants song<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes,\u00c2\u00a0Triangle Man beats Patio Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks has introduced us all to the crucial segment of the electorate that\u00c2\u00a0determines the course of American politics:\u00c2\u00a0 Patio Man. For all the talk of plumbers and investment bankers, populists and elitists, Patio Man is still at the epicenter of national politics. Self-parody much?\u00c2\u00a0 But before you get your mock on, I think I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}