{"id":1182,"date":"2008-01-23T21:08:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T20:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2015-07-07T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T14:00:24","slug":"blog-of-the-day-3-two-wide-eyed-brits-lost-on-the-american-campaign-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/blog-of-the-day-3-two-wide-eyed-brits-lost-on-the-american-campaign-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog of the Day 3: Two Wide-eyed Brits Lost on the American Campaign Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 261px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/authors.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfellowamericans2008.com\/\">My Fellow Americans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Woofah<\/em> contributor Dan Hancox and his mate Tom Humberstone on a serious road trip around the US primaries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 280px; height: 358px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/nh7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Electoral politics isn&#8217;t really my thing, but the blog is great because they focus on the concerns of everyday people they happen to bump into rather than the minutiae of the campaigns. This means they engage with everyone from campaigners, to the cynical to the oblivious.<\/p>\n<p>So the whole thing becomes an &#8216;on the road&#8217; from a UK\/London perspective more than an on the spot reportage thing. It&#8217;s great!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 279px; height: 267px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/iowa5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tom&#8217;s illustrations are bloody good as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you are one of my US readers then definitely check the blog and <a href=\"http:\/\/myfellowamericans2008.com\/blog\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">try to hook up with them for coffee! <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Fellow Americans Woofah contributor Dan Hancox and his mate Tom Humberstone on a serious road trip around the US primaries. Electoral politics isn&#8217;t really my thing, but the blog is great because they focus on the concerns of everyday people they happen to bump into rather than the minutiae of the campaigns. This means &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/blog-of-the-day-3-two-wide-eyed-brits-lost-on-the-american-campaign-trail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Blog of the Day 3: Two Wide-eyed Brits Lost on the American Campaign Trail&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6067,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}