{"id":384,"date":"2006-01-12T08:14:27","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T15:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=384"},"modified":"2006-01-12T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T15:14:27","slug":"whats-the-name-of-the-mayor-of-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/01\/12\/whats-the-name-of-the-mayor-of-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the name of the mayor of Chicago?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I was on the Max train, passing the Rose Garden with a large number of people coming out of the Blazers game. (Inexplicably, the Trailblazers beat the Lakers. Don’t ask me how that happened.) Travis Outlaw Bobble-heads abounded. (Perhaps the team can have a “Sam Bowie” bobble-head night while they’re at it, to celebrate one of the most famous Portland Trailblazers in team history?*)<\/p>\n

There was a group of yuppies who went to the game. The bobble-heads all went into the hands of two men in the group, the two who have children.<\/p>\n

“So, who’s mayor of Chicago these days?”<\/p>\n

A bone-headed question. “Daley.”<\/p>\n

“So, it’s not really a Democracy so much as it’s basically a monarchy in Chicago?”<\/p>\n

“Basically, yes.” A pause. “I think after a few years, the new Daley is required to stick a “III” after his name, so Chicago always has Mayor Daley the Third.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was on the Max train, passing the Rose Garden with a large number of people coming out of the Blazers game. (Inexplicably, the Trailblazers beat the Lakers. Don’t ask me how that happened.) Travis Outlaw Bobble-heads abounded. (Perhaps the team can have a “Sam Bowie” bobble-head night while they’re at it, to celebrate one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","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=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}