{"id":3492,"date":"2009-03-05T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2009-03-05T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:50:00","slug":"q-what-do-people-throughout-america-think-about-sam-adams-and-portland-a-they-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/03\/05\/q-what-do-people-throughout-america-think-about-sam-adams-and-portland-a-they-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: What do people throughout America think about Sam Adams and Portland? A: They don’t."},"content":{"rendered":"

I see this blog post\u00c2\u00a0regarding Sam Adams at “Real Oregon Reality”, <\/a>a blog I am aware of simply because I’m\u00c2\u00a0linked there\u00c2\u00a0(admittedly a good way of making me aware of\u00c2\u00a0a blog).<\/p>\n

I will make this one small comment which I can’t really reiterate enough.\u00c2\u00a0 I hear and see commentary from, say for instance KPAM’s Victoria Taft, that the Sam Adams situation is “turning Portland into a laughing-stock”.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an absurd statement.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no doubt in my mind that national name identification for Sam Adams is a rounding error, and Portland’s national identity remains essentially framed as a smaller version of Seattle — it rains a lot and studies show we’re depressed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At any rate, Randy Leonard’s opinion of Adams has changed since that video… which, for some reason, the oh-so-eminant Portland blogging authority Jack Bog has ust discovered<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00c2\u00a0personally don’t have too much use for “Candidates Gone Wild”, which seems to do some harm and some good but probably a bit more good than harm on the political process, but I’m a bit humorless in some matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I see this blog post\u00c2\u00a0regarding Sam Adams at “Real Oregon Reality”, a blog I am aware of simply because I’m\u00c2\u00a0linked there\u00c2\u00a0(admittedly a good way of making me aware of\u00c2\u00a0a blog). I will make this one small comment which I can’t really reiterate enough.\u00c2\u00a0 I hear and see commentary from, say for instance KPAM’s Victoria Taft, […]<\/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-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","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=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3493,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions\/3493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}