{"id":1069,"date":"2012-01-16T17:38:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2012-01-16T17:45:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:45:59","slug":"rick-santorum-visits-the-tama-county-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/rick-santorum-visits-the-tama-county-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santorum* visits the Tama County Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snltranscripts.jt.org\/11\/11ksantorum.phtml\">OK, not really.<\/a> (Note: From Hulu. May not work in Firefox.)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"512\" height=\"288\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed\/C9dwMCFVARj7OfYmYlmbrQ?shared_ad_id=79443\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed\/C9dwMCFVARj7OfYmYlmbrQ?shared_ad_id=79443\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the Tama County Fair, I sampled a local dessert specialty: a 3-pound stick of butter coated with Crisco, then deep-fried, dipped into a mixture of olive oil and Ranch dressing and covered with butterscotch frosting. Only later did I learn that this was not an Iowa delicacy, and that I had been the victim of a prank by a local branch of the College Democrats. Still, even as I lay on a cot in a first aid tent, vomiting convulsively, I had to say to myself: &#8216;I wouldn&#8217;t trade this for the world.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This loses some of its humor when you know that the Tama County Fair is a 4H-only event and available food comes from either the Lions Club in the main building or the candy\/freeze-pop trailer. Do the College Democrats at UNI count as a local branch? Regardless, this is, by far, the most prominent appearance of the Tama County Fair in anything.<\/p>\n<p>Also getting name-dropped: Polk, Cass, and Humboldt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, not really. (Note: From Hulu. May not work in Firefox.) &#8220;At the Tama County Fair, I sampled a local dessert specialty: a 3-pound stick of butter coated with Crisco, then deep-fried, dipped into a mixture of olive oil and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/rick-santorum-visits-the-tama-county-fair\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}