{"id":1157,"date":"2008-09-30T08:24:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T13:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2008-09-30T08:53:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T13:53:50","slug":"a-wink-and-a-wagging-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"A Wink and a Wagging Finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Perrotta explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2200814\/pagenum\/all\/\">the unique appeal of Sarah Palin<\/a> in <em>Slate<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Sarah Palin] engage[s] in the culture war on two levels\u2014not simply by advocating conservative positions on hot-button social issues but by embodying nonthreatening mainstream standards of female beauty and behavior at the same time. The net result is a paradox, a bit of cognitive dissonance very useful to the cultural right: You get a little thrill along with your traditional values, a wink along with the wagging finger. Somehow, you don&#8217;t feel quite as much like a prig as you expected to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Perrotta explains the unique appeal of Sarah Palin in Slate: [Sarah Palin] engage[s] in the culture war on two levels\u2014not simply by advocating conservative positions on hot-button social issues but by embodying nonthreatening mainstream standards of female beauty and behavior at the same time. The net result is a paradox, a bit of cognitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,22,45,4],"tags":[663,819],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-issues","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-politics","tag-sarah-palin","tag-sexy-puritan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-iF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}