{"id":1670,"date":"2008-09-03T15:09:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-03T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T15:11:57","slug":"oh-bama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/oh-bama\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, &#8216;bama!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-B3gdNF0jos?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe surviving members of <strong>The Grateful Dead<\/strong> will reunite for a show to support the <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> campaign for President. Then they will most likely schedule a full tour to cash in on this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>After having failed to rally the support of <strong>Thin White Duke-era Bowie<\/strong> and further establish his credibility as a cokehead, his campaign staffers decided to field repeated calls from <strong>Phil Lesh<\/strong>. &#8220;If I&#8217;m going to be the agent of change,&#8221; Obama is reported to have told campaign manager <strong>David Axelrod<\/strong>, &#8220;what better than gaining the full support of the poster band for mind expansion?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WfM6nRVBvGs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAxelrod, a longtime Deadhead, concurred, and reached out to former <strong>Jimmy Carter<\/strong> supporters, <strong>The Allman Brothers<\/strong>, to open the show.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/palin.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Heavy metal thunder!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>John McCain<\/strong>, meanwhile, has been discussing with running mate <strong>Sarah Palin<\/strong> the possibility of gaining the backing of <strong>The Doobie Brothers<\/strong>. &#8220;I&#8217;m more of a <strong>Steppenwolf<\/strong> fan myself,&#8221; said McCain, &#8220;but I worry that voters may read the lyrics of &#8216;The Pusher&#8217; the wrong way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/08\/29\/grateful-dead-package-deal\">Recently.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surviving members of The Grateful Dead will reunite for a show to support the Barack Obama campaign for President. Then they will most likely schedule a full tour to cash in on this opportunity. After having failed to rally the support of Thin White Duke-era Bowie and further establish his credibility as a cokehead, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/oh-bama\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}