{"id":10895,"date":"2019-04-15T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10895"},"modified":"2019-04-15T00:13:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T05:13:26","slug":"fictional-candidate-places-real-newspaper-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/fictional-candidate-places-real-newspaper-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Fictional candidate places real newspaper ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And may be polling higher than John Delaney.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iowa would do themselves the honor of selecting me as their candidate for president! Join me!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/newselinanow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#newselinanow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/veep?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#veep<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hbo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hbo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/selinameyer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#selinameyer<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cv8vf3xKd9\">pic.twitter.com\/cv8vf3xKd9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Selina Meyer (@OfficialSelinaM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialSelinaM\/status\/1117113705358155776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One of the other characters from &#8220;Veep&#8221; also had an ad in <i>The Des Moines Register<\/i> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this attention from HBO, the writers apparently did not know there&#8217;s no such place as Waterloo County. (A joke relying on a fictional Cedar Falls Airport that kicked off the <a href=\"https:\/\/tvline.com\/2019\/03\/31\/veep-premiere-recap-final-season-7-episode-1-iowa\/\">first episode of the final season<\/a> was both less egregious and allowable under the Rule of Funny.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And may be polling higher than John Delaney. Iowa would do themselves the honor of selecting me as their candidate for president! Join me!! #newselinanow #veep #hbo #selinameyer pic.twitter.com\/cv8vf3xKd9 &mdash; Selina Meyer (@OfficialSelinaM) April 13, 2019 One of the other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/fictional-candidate-places-real-newspaper-ad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895","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=10895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10897,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895\/revisions\/10897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}