{"id":1246,"date":"2008-09-22T10:09:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2008-09-22T10:09:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T17:09:18","slug":"this-just-in-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"This Just In&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahalo to my father for sending\u00a0this\u00a0along to me. I don&#8217;t normally advocate participating in online polls, but apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/now\/\">PBS&#8217;s NOW<\/a> is offering a poll on Sarah Palin&#8217;s suitability as a vice-presidential candidate. The poll is a couple of weeks old at this point, but it appears that conservatives\u2014or perhaps just\u00a0pranksters\u2014have been flooding the thing with &#8220;YES&#8221; votes, as I don&#8217;t believe that a 54% majority of PBS viewers would say that she was.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a moment and would like to offer your input, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/search\/redir\/http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/now\/polls\/poll-435.html\">here is a link to the poll<\/a>. No registration information is required, though of course PBS is probably harvesting your IP address and TCP headers to sell to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valpak.com\/\">Valpak Incorporated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now if we could just get them to offer a poll on whether to make David Brancaccio lose that awful perm&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahalo to my father for sending\u00a0this\u00a0along to me. I don&#8217;t normally advocate participating in online polls, but apparently PBS&#8217;s NOW is offering a poll on Sarah Palin&#8217;s suitability as a vice-presidential candidate. The poll is a couple of weeks old at this point, but it appears that conservatives\u2014or perhaps just\u00a0pranksters\u2014have been flooding the thing with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}