{"id":1183,"date":"2008-09-04T17:03:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T00:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2008-09-04T17:09:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T00:09:13","slug":"dripping-with-disdain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2008\/09\/dripping-with-disdain\/","title":{"rendered":"DRIPPING with disdain&#8230;My town and Sarah Palin&#8217;s: Wasilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I was first horrified by Palin&#8217;s nomination. Wasilla is not a lovely town.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, it IS a town, and not every town is cute. Slate has <a href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/link\/bcpid988092926\/bctid1772099431\">this <\/a>tour of the town of my teen years.<\/p>\n<p>I approve of her choice to invest in a sports complex. I believe I&#8217;ve read an enormous portion of the books lining that library&#8217;s shelves, and I love the Wasilla public library dearly. But lets be real. Wasilla has a teen population that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-data.com\/school\/wasilla-high-school-ak.html\">may or may not<\/a> graduate from high school. Education is not so valued in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0sports complex for the community is a lot more practical.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah&#8230;I have a new handy catchphrase from <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahawk.typepad.com\/iowahawk\/2008\/08\/seeking-swing-s.html\">this <\/a>\u00a0post &#8220;hipster douchebag.&#8221; The post is long but worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I was first horrified by Palin&#8217;s nomination. Wasilla is not a lovely town. But hey, it IS a town, and not every town is cute. Slate has this tour of the town of my teen years. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2008\/09\/dripping-with-disdain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}