{"id":4300,"date":"2008-04-11T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T07:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/11\/local-political-ad\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T07:44:48","slug":"local-political-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4300","title":{"rendered":"Local political ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N2UesvrH-cs&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N2UesvrH-cs&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(Watch the ad before reading further if you prefer to avoid &#8220;spoilers&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Novick, who is in a sharply contested race for the the Democratic Senate nomination here in Oregon, is (obviously) disabled, but a generation or two ago he would have had to hide his disability to be a viable candidate &#8212; or his disability would have foreclosed him being a viable candidate at all.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t mean that ablism is dead, any more than the current race for the Democratic Presidential nom means that sexism and racism are dead. But it&#8217;s definitely pleasing.<\/p>\n<p>In other Novick news, he&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueoregon.com\/2008\/04\/top-10.html\">endorsed <\/a>by Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney. For many of my friends, that alone might be reason enough to vote for him.<\/p>\n<p>(Curtsy: <a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/creativity-in-advertising.html\">Debate Link<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Watch the ad before reading further if you prefer to avoid &#8220;spoilers&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disabled-rights-issues","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}