{"id":3229,"date":"2008-12-05T14:18:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T21:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/05\/going-going-gone\/"},"modified":"2008-12-05T14:18:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T21:18:55","slug":"going-going-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/05\/going-going-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; Going&#8230; Going&#8230; Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While studies show that coverage of President Elect Obama far outweighs coverage of President Bush, coverage of President Elect Obama having a similar tinge to it as if he were indeed president,<\/p>\n<p>The Bush Era is not quite over.\u00c2\u00a0 Leaving aside pardons and last minute de-regulating executive orders and procedual movements, witness this banner-ad I&#8217;ve been seeing around the Internet today, reduced to half its height and half its width:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/imgad.jpg\" height=\"34\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is, I guess, a last minute sell-off before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/video\/economists_warn_anti_bush\">this happens<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 But really, it&#8217;s something of wistful nostalgia for the past eight years.<\/p>\n<p>It will take a bit of time to adjust this point of impulse sales click\u00c2\u00a0through\u00c2\u00a0for\u00c2\u00a0a mocking\u00c2\u00a0Barack Obama banner ad market.\u00c2\u00a0 But it&#8217;ll come.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone is just feeling the way around right now.\u00c2\u00a0 It took until Bush choked on a pretzel for people to learn how to laugh at Bush again in the post 9\/11 world &#8212; Obama&#8217;s time\u00c2\u00a0enfused in banner ads topping\u00c2\u00a0general interest only\u00c2\u00a0tangeantally political Internet\u00c2\u00a0websites is coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While studies show that coverage of President Elect Obama far outweighs coverage of President Bush, coverage of President Elect Obama having a similar tinge to it as if he were indeed president, The Bush Era is not quite over.\u00c2\u00a0 Leaving aside pardons and last minute de-regulating executive orders and procedual movements, witness this banner-ad I&#8217;ve [&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-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","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=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}