A young woman, I’d guess aged 19 or 20, on the phone.\u00c2\u00a0 What I hear: “Yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s from Littleton.\u00c2\u00a0 Littleton, Colorado.” [Pause]\u00c2\u00a0 “Yes, I’m sure she’s sick of that.”<\/p>\n
These are the towns nobody had ever heard of, until one day\u00c2\u00a0everyone had heard of.\u00c2\u00a0 “Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m from Waco.<\/em>“\u00c2\u00a0 Great.\u00c2\u00a0 An immediate\u00c2\u00a0 mental image is conjured up.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n “Anyone here from Ruby Ridge?”<\/p>\n Oh.\u00c2\u00a0 You’re from Jena, Louisiana?<\/p>\n Can we get a Wasilla?<\/p>\n Another overheard conversation.\u00c2\u00a0 “You look like that Obama spokesperson, can’t think of his name.” I interject, fumbling through my mind a bad answer.\u00c2\u00a0 “Axelrod?”<\/p>\n “No.\u00c2\u00a0 Not him.\u00c2\u00a0 Hm.”<\/p>\n The answer was, in case you’re curious, looking it up just now, Gibbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A young woman, I’d guess aged 19 or 20, on the phone.\u00c2\u00a0 What I hear: “Yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s from Littleton.\u00c2\u00a0 Littleton, Colorado.” [Pause]\u00c2\u00a0 “Yes, I’m sure she’s sick of that.” These are the towns nobody had ever heard of, until one day\u00c2\u00a0everyone had heard of.\u00c2\u00a0 “Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m from Waco.“\u00c2\u00a0 Great.\u00c2\u00a0 An immediate\u00c2\u00a0 mental image is conjured […]<\/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-4610","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\/4610","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=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“Yeah I can see that.”<\/p>\n