{"id":3145,"date":"2008-10-24T13:59:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T20:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/10\/24\/a-partial-defense-of-sarah-palin\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T13:59:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T20:59:37","slug":"a-partial-defense-of-sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/10\/24\/a-partial-defense-of-sarah-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"a partial defense of Sarah Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw an image of Barack Obama with resoled shoes.\u00c2\u00a0 It made me think of two things.\u00c2\u00a0 #1:\u00c2\u00a0 Adlai Stevenson, one of many presidential candidates Obama has been compared to, who famously was caught with holes in his shoes &#8212; in his case adding to an &#8220;Absent Minded Professor&#8221; image.\u00c2\u00a0 Obama&#8217;s shoe-shot was meant to add to a minor &#8220;Working Class Hero&#8221; image of sorts, as against Sarah Palin&#8217;s expensive outfits.<\/p>\n<p>And that was the second thing I thought about.\u00c2\u00a0 The gender\u00c2\u00a0double-standard that helped lead to Palin&#8217;s expensive wardrobe.\u00c2\u00a0 Surely it is part of the &#8220;uber-attractive&#8221; image they have cut out for Palin, but how would we respond if she was photographed with holes (patched up or not) in her shoes?\u00c2\u00a0 The tabloids and news media would go wild.\u00c2\u00a0 Which, I suppose, they have in the case of her expensive outfits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw an image of Barack Obama with resoled shoes.\u00c2\u00a0 It made me think of two things.\u00c2\u00a0 #1:\u00c2\u00a0 Adlai Stevenson, one of many presidential candidates Obama has been compared to, who famously was caught with holes in his shoes &#8212; in his case adding to an &#8220;Absent Minded Professor&#8221; image.\u00c2\u00a0 Obama&#8217;s shoe-shot was meant to [&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-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","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=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}