{"id":1811,"date":"2011-07-29T21:04:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T02:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2012-02-05T23:57:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T05:57:33","slug":"american-idol-for-politics-heres-real-democracy-in-2012-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;American Idol&#8217; for politics? Here&#8217;s real democracy in 2012 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Votocracy2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1820\" title=\"Votocracy2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Votocracy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>Have you ever had a hankering to run for president? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votocracy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Well, now you can do it &#8212; for just $99.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sort of like trying out for American Idol, it seems. You don&#8217;t have to be able to sing, though. You just need a platform and $99 entry fee. The finalists are going to compete on national television &#8212; just like American Idol.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a gag. It seems like a real effort to get people to plunk down money. But I find myself thinking that someone must&#8217;ve dreamed this scheme up while watching &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BBvIweCIgwk\" target=\"_blank\">Idiocracy<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever had a hankering to run for president? Well, now you can do it &#8212; for just $99. It&#8217;s sort of like trying out for American Idol, it seems. You don&#8217;t have to be able to sing, though. You just need a platform and $99 entry fee. The finalists are going to compete <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=1811\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-td","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10297,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/10297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}