{"id":808,"date":"2008-07-21T08:06:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T12:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=808"},"modified":"2008-07-18T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T17:50:08","slug":"id-vote-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d Vote for Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/3000kansas.jpg\" alt=\"The 3000\" title=\"The 3000\" width=\"500\" height=\"138\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sean Tevis is a geekly geek in Kansas who&#8217;s sick of his troglodytic state representative.  He&#8217;s running to replace him, and is looking to raise some money to help with his campaign.  Specifically, he&#8217;s trying to raise $8.34 from 3,000 people.  To promote his cause, he&#8217;s created an awesome <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.xkcd.com\/\">xkcd<\/A>-tribute cartoon series entitled, &#8220;It\u2019s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No state rep in Kansas history has ever had more than 644 donors, but he&#8217;s already quadrupled that number.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the future of politics.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/seantevis.com\/kansas\/3000\/running-for-office-xkcd-style\/\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Tevis is a geekly geek in Kansas who&#8217;s sick of his troglodytic state representative. He&#8217;s running to replace him, and is looking to raise some money to help with his campaign. Specifically, he&#8217;s trying to raise $8.34 from 3,000 people. To promote his cause, he&#8217;s created an awesome xkcd-tribute cartoon series entitled, &#8220;It\u2019s Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}