{"id":5454,"date":"2014-10-31T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2014-10-31T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T21:38:21","slug":"drowning-in-a-mud-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/drowning-in-a-mud-pit\/","title":{"rendered":"Drowning in a mud pit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How bad is the onslaught of political advertising in Iowa, the state with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/graphics\/2014-senate-ads-and-issues\/top-10-states.html\">second-highest number of Senate-race ads in the country<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>During &#8220;Jeopardy&#8221;, KWWL ran 30 seconds of nothing but a still picture of a woman in a serene position in the outdoors, with the text &#8220;Political ad break.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and then the ads came back \u2014 for Senate, House, governor and everything else.<\/p>\n<p>(Has anyone else noted that Iowa House\/Iowa Senate ads never mention the district or even location the candidate is in? How can that possibly be effective?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How bad is the onslaught of political advertising in Iowa, the state with the second-highest number of Senate-race ads in the country? During &#8220;Jeopardy&#8221;, KWWL ran 30 seconds of nothing but a still picture of a woman in a serene &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/drowning-in-a-mud-pit\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","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=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}