{"id":1621,"date":"2010-09-20T21:39:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T04:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2010-09-25T19:10:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T02:10:41","slug":"1621","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1621","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes You Can&#8217;t Win For Losing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Write-in campaigns are almost always an exercise in futility.  Every once in a while, though, the stars align just perfectly and a candidate with high name recognition, a weak opponent, a ton of money, and a short, easy-to-remember-and-spell name comes along.  <\/p>\n<p>Alaska&#8217;s 2010 senatorial election doesn&#8217;t look to be one of those times.  Poor Lisa <del datetime=\"2010-09-21T04:08:49+00:00\">Murkuski<\/del> <del datetime=\"2010-09-21T04:08:49+00:00\">Murkwski<\/del> Whosis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/murkuwski1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/murkuwski1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"murkuwski\" width=\"400\" height=\"219\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1625\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/murkuwski1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/murkuwski1-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE TO CANDIDATE:  If your campaign team can&#8217;t spell your name <del datetime=\"2010-09-21T04:08:49+00:00\">rite<\/del> <del datetime=\"2010-09-21T04:08:49+00:00\">wright<\/del> <del datetime=\"2010-09-21T04:08:49+00:00\">write<\/del> CORRECTLY!<\/strong> &#8211; for the website, you might want to reconsider your decision. <\/p>\n<p> Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write-in campaigns are almost always an exercise in futility. Every once in a while, though, the stars align just perfectly and a candidate with high name recognition, a weak opponent, a ton of money, and a short, easy-to-remember-and-spell name comes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2Xq4i-1621","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}