{"id":13030,"date":"2008-08-12T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T04:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/08\/12\/be-the-first-among-thousands-to-know.html"},"modified":"2008-08-12T21:03:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T04:03:45","slug":"be_the_first_among_thousa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/be_the_first_among_thousa.html","title":{"rendered":"Be the first (among thousands) to know!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image-shade-right\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 265px; HEIGHT: 140px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/obama08.jpg\" \/> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Okay, sure, it&#8217;s gimmicky &#8212; but it&#8217;s a neat kind of gimmicky. Sign up <a href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/s\/firsttoknow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (for free) and when Obama announces his running mate, he&#8217;ll send you a text message or email (your choice) at (it is said) the same time the news goes to the media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, gimmicky. Yes, not terribly meaningful. But nicely symbolic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Okay, sure, it&#8217;s gimmicky &#8212; but it&#8217;s a neat kind of gimmicky. Sign up here (for free) and when Obama announces his running mate, he&#8217;ll send you a text&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127565,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/20\/get-your-name-to-mars.html","url_meta":{"origin":13030,"position":0},"title":"Get Your Name to Mars","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 20-Aug-15 10:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Gimmicky as hell, and I still love it. 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