{"id":4145,"date":"2009-06-16T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T19:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2009-06-16T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T19:40:39","slug":"dad-ville-daddio-dada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/06\/16\/dad-ville-daddio-dada\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad-ville, Daddio, Dada"},"content":{"rendered":"

An overheard bit of conversation:<\/p>\n

“You know when you see a dad, and he’s kicking ass in Dadville, and you go ‘Wooah.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to be like that guy!'”<\/p>\n

Actually, I think I’ll modify that nugget.<\/p>\n

When you see a Dad
\nWho’s Kicking Ass in Dadville
\nI wanna be him.<\/p>\n

That’s more poetic.<\/p>\n

I’m not a dad.\u00c2\u00a0 I know some dads.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a dad.\u00c2\u00a0 I may be a bit too myopic to put my place in any dads’ shoes, particularly my own dad with relation to me, to understand what “kicking ass in dad-ville” entails or how it manifests itself.<\/p>\n

It’s also possible that the particular language employed by the conversants is a case study in why George Will hates blue jeans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An overheard bit of conversation: “You know when you see a dad, and he’s kicking ass in Dadville, and you go ‘Wooah.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to be like that guy!’” Actually, I think I’ll modify that nugget. When you see a Dad Who’s Kicking Ass in Dadville I wanna be him. That’s more poetic. I’m not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","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=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4146,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}