{"id":285,"date":"2008-10-07T09:22:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T16:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=285"},"modified":"2008-10-07T09:22:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T16:22:55","slug":"obama-bi-den","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2008\/10\/obama-bi-den\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Bi den"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_7324.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_7324-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Obama bamboo\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_7324-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_7324.jpg 1586w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On my short walk with my daughter this morning to her bus stop I counted 12 Obama signs. Over the same course McCain had 0. In fact, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen a McCain sign in the entire town. If <a href=http:\/\/intrade.com\/ target=_new>intrade.com<\/a> is as accurate as they have been on prior elections Obama will win by a  landslide, and not just in Oregon. The national polls show him with only a small lead, but in electoral votes he seems to be a sure lock.<\/p>\n<p>The above photo is of my favorite Obama sign on the walk to the bus stop. I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/bamboo\/>bamboo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_7327.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_7327-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Obama Biden looks like Osama Bin Laden\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_7327-800x591.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_7327.jpg 1420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first time I saw one of the above signs from a distance I thought it said Osama Bin Laden. Who would have guessed 7 years ago that the 2008 ticket, about to win the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ryanellie\/2008\/06\/ellie-at-the-white-house\/>White House<\/a>, would be just one letter off from a slightly abbreviated version of Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my short walk with my daughter this morning to her bus stop I counted 12 Obama signs. Over the same course McCain had 0. In fact, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen a McCain sign in the entire town. If intrade.com is as accurate as they have been on prior elections Obama will win by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}