{"id":125,"date":"2004-11-09T17:14:15","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T01:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/a-virtual-shovel-for-all-your-bs-needs\/"},"modified":"2004-11-09T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T01:14:15","slug":"a-virtual-shovel-for-all-your-bs-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/a-virtual-shovel-for-all-your-bs-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"A virtual shovel for all your B.S. needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\">Josh Marshall<\/a>, a 2004 election <a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~mejn\/election\/statecartlarge.png\">blue-red map weighted for population density<\/a> to counter all of those &#8220;look at all them red states&#8221; arguments.<\/p>\n<p>And some Boston Globe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2004\/10\/31\/walking_the_walk_on_family_values\/\">debunking of some of the post-election marriage\/values debate<\/a>, which is a pointless discussion. I still want to research the exit poll that everyone&#8217;s quoting placed &#8220;moral values&#8221; as one of the issues in the election. Who conducts the poll? Who decided that was a choice? What were the other choices? Why was it added? You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p><b>EDIT: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2004\/11\/05\/opinion\/meyer\/main653931.shtml\">More input<\/a> on the<br \/>\n&#8220;moral values&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found via Josh Marshall, a 2004 election blue-red map weighted for population density to counter all of those &#8220;look at all them red states&#8221; arguments. And some Boston Globe debunking of some of the post-election marriage\/values debate, which is a pointless discussion. I still want to research the exit poll that everyone&#8217;s quoting placed &#8220;moral <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/a-virtual-shovel-for-all-your-bs-needs\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-21","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}