{"id":2343,"date":"2008-08-30T22:24:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T02:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2008-08-30T22:24:57","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T02:24:57","slug":"the-deadliest-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-deadliest-pick","title":{"rendered":"The Deadliest Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t venture into politics too often on this blog, but here’s my prediction for the Sarah Palin effect: it backfires on McCain because women will actually want to vote against<\/em> her the more their husbands point out how hot she is<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t venture into politics too often on this blog, but here’s my prediction for the Sarah Palin effect: it backfires on McCain because women will actually want to vote against her the more their husbands point out how hot she is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-explicit","tag-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-BN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3646,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-march-20-2009","url_meta":{"origin":2343,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: March 20, 2009","author":"Gil","date":"March 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow! 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