{"id":2032,"date":"2008-09-19T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2008-09-19T00:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T19:46:00","slug":"free-drinks-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2032","title":{"rendered":"Free drinks for Obama!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama got me free drinks tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to change into my &#8220;Obama \/ Biden &#8217;08&#8221; shirt before going in to Adam&#8217;s Morgan for a drink with the guys from work.  We went to the first bar of the evening (Reef) without incident, other than the Canadian women pulling the old &#8220;which are the cool bars&#8221; line.  Come on, girls, we know what that&#8217;s about.  Eh?<\/p>\n<p>The onward to a hookah bar at the far end of the street, where we had barely settled in before the four young black folks at a nearby table had bought me (very specifically) a drink because &#8220;they liked my shirt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Go Obama.<\/p>\n<p>When said drink arrived, I went over and chatted with them.  Political science students at Howard University.  Some from Kenya, some from other places.  They were very interested in why I like Obama, whether I think he&#8217;ll win, and (after some talking) where I&#8217;m coming from and why.  <\/p>\n<p>Good times.  So now, if anyone wants to know why I support Obama &#8230; it&#8217;s because he gets me free drinks at the bar.  <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see a Mccain shirt do that.  I have no desire to be in a real bar fight, so I leave it as a thought experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama got me free drinks tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to change into my &#8220;Obama \/ Biden &#8217;08&#8221; shirt before going in to Adam&#8217;s Morgan for a drink with the guys from work. We went to the first bar of the evening (Reef) without incident, other than the Canadian women pulling the old &#8220;which are the cool <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2032\">Free drinks for Obama!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}