{"id":192,"date":"2008-02-19T18:14:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T17:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/american-politics-in-dublin\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T17:50:10","slug":"american-politics-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/american-politics-in-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"American Politics in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have political interactions with Dubliners more than twice a day (when I’m out and about). Here’s two from today.<\/p>\n

First, in the hardware store: The two workers there know me and they know that I’m American. One asks, “How about yer man McCain. Do ya think he’ll win?” Discussion ensues, bringing in another customer (Irish). All seem to hope that Obama wins the primaries and the election.<\/p>\n

Second, not really an interaction, but a poster I saw all over town:
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I have political interactions with Dubliners more than twice a day (when I’m out and about). Here’s two from today. First, in the hardware store: The two workers there know me and they know that I’m American. One asks, “How about yer man McCain. Do ya think he’ll win?” Discussion ensues, bringing in another customer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,8,9,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}