{"id":319,"date":"2010-03-20T22:02:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T22:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2010-03-20T22:02:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T22:02:37","slug":"but-dont-let-me-break-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/but-dont-let-me-break-you\/","title":{"rendered":"But don&#8217;t let me break you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Gravel\">Mike Gravel<\/a> is an interesting guy. A former US Senator, he entered the 2008 Presidential campaign, first attempting to secure the Democratic nomination and later switching to the Libertarian party. From what I&#8217;ve read and seen he seems really smart with a great platform, but he never stood a chance. Partly because his proposals were too radical, but also because his campaign just didn&#8217;t have the funding that&#8217;s so vital in American politics. Playing on this he launched it with a charming poster made by his granddaughter (&#8220;Vote for Grandpa Mike&#8221;). He also made a few popular YouTube videos, one of which was this version of The Beatles&#8217; &#8220;Helter Skelter&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bA2LgJviH9w&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bA2LgJviH9w&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The guy behind the music and video is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/rx2008\">rx2008<\/a>, who was also responsible for the brilliant cutups of other politicians singing along to popular songs, including Bush doing Sunday Bloody Sunday. Plus he&#8217;s written some great songs of his own: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dS63vGDoLJ4\">did somebody out sugar in my tea?<\/a> is one of my favourite tunes ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Gravel is an interesting guy. A former US Senator, he entered the 2008 Presidential campaign, first attempting to secure the Democratic nomination and later switching to the Libertarian party. From what I&#8217;ve read and seen he seems really smart with a great platform, but he never stood a chance. Partly because his proposals were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/but-dont-let-me-break-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">But don&#8217;t let me break you<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}