{"id":545,"date":"2005-05-26T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=545"},"modified":"2005-12-10T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T21:36:24","slug":"affordable-family-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/affordable-family-formation","title":{"rendered":"Affordable Family Formation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mickey Kaus<\/a> links to a blogger who thinks he’s figured out how “red states” get red and “blue states” get blue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Personally, I want to find out if Bloods vote Republican and Crips vote Democrat, but I guess no one’s explored that issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mickey Kaus links to a blogger who thinks he’s figured out how “red states” get red and “blue states” get blue. Personally, I want to find out if Bloods vote Republican and Crips vote Democrat, but I guess no one’s explored that issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-8N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2842,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/vote-with-soul","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":0},"title":"Vote with soul","author":"Gil","date":"November 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't finished loading up my new iPod yet, so I wasn't able to play James Brown's Living in America during the drive down to the polling station this morning. 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In response to Nicholas Sarkozy's romance and wedding with hottie Carla Bruni, recently-restored-to-power Silvio Berlusconi appointed Mara Cafagna to the obviously BS cabinet post of equal opportunities minister! How do you say,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (implicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (implicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-implicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"I have an equal opportunity for you...","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/mara_carfagna.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2578,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-oct-3-2008","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":3},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Oct. 3, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"October 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Are you ready for some linkage? I put in some hefty ones, to make up for last week's hiatus (woop-woop-woop!). Also, because my brain was going to shut off if I listened to any more of the VP debate. Just click more! Make your blog more like The Wire! (Seriously,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13949,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-402-darryl-pinckney","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":4},"title":"Episode 402 – Darryl Pinckney","author":"Gil","date":"October 13, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 402: Darryl Pinckney \"The vote has to be rethought in our American hearts as a radical act, because so many people don't want you to vote. 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