{"id":2713,"date":"2014-10-20T22:01:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T02:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2014-10-20T21:22:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T01:22:04","slug":"signs-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The citizens of \u00a0New Hampshire take their politics seriously&#8230; even in the mid-term elections. This is probably because we really hew to the idea that all politics are local!<\/p>\n<p>There are road side signs every where as candidates work on their &#8220;name recognition&#8221;. In some places one passes a lonely singleton in some one&#8217;s yard or along an isolated stretch of road. In other places there are great masses of signs concentrated in a small area. The first photo (below) shows the lineup of signs by our local market in Antrim.<\/p>\n<p>Since we do not watch television (or listen to commercial radio) I can only imagine the onslaught of political advertising that viewers\/listeners are enduring. Clearly, from the sign at one nearby fire station, the barrage has been too much for at least one individual!<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=318 autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The citizens of \u00a0New Hampshire take their politics seriously&#8230; even in the mid-term elections. This is probably because we really hew to the idea that all politics are local! There are road side signs every where as candidates work on their &#8220;name recognition&#8221;. In some places one passes a lonely singleton in some one&#8217;s yard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}