{"id":1284,"date":"2008-10-10T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2008-10-09T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:12:02","slug":"political-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"(Political) Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>io9 has figured out why Sarah Palin wasn&#8217;t a perfect replacement for Hillary Clinton in the minds of voters: Hillary is <I>Star Trek<\/I> and Sarah is <I>Star Wars<\/I>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><B>Sarah Palin is Yoda, Hillary Clinton is Deanna Troi<\/B><br \/>\nSarah is full of wise sayings, even if they often don&#8217;t make sense and lack a certain amount of grammar. She seems like harmless and a bit goofy, until she&#8217;s under attack &#8212; and then she&#8217;ll start hopping around like a maniac. Hillary, meanwhile, acts kind of cold and uptight \u2014 but she really, really, no <EM>really<\/EM> feels your pain. And Hillary stands by her guy, even though he&#8217;s overweight and always running off to Risa to hook up with some Trill skank.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McCain makes a passable Emperor Palpatine, too.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5059126\/sarah-palin--star-wars-hillary-clinton--star-trek\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>io9 has figured out why Sarah Palin wasn&#8217;t a perfect replacement for Hillary Clinton in the minds of voters: Hillary is Star Trek and Sarah is Star Wars. Sarah Palin is Yoda, Hillary Clinton is Deanna Troi Sarah is full of wise sayings, even if they often don&#8217;t make sense and lack a certain amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}