{"id":1258,"date":"2008-11-02T08:42:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T15:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2008-11-02T08:42:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T15:42:27","slug":"fingering-a-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/fingering-a-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Fingering a Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at Yahoo! News. I saw a set of thumbnail pictures. I noticed one in particular. I clicked on it because I wanted to see if the photo were clear enough to read the writing on the document.<\/p>\n<p>Though I couldn&#8217;t read the writing, I wondered if I could read the message.<\/p>\n<p>To put it another way, I was astounded at what I saw.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/afp\/20081031\/capt.cps.obp29.311008160230.photo00.photo.default-512x328.jpg\" width=400 height=256 alt=\"Fingering a Ballot?\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What would make this photo a subliminal message?<\/p>\n<p>What would make it obscene?<\/p>\n<p>What would make it racist?<\/p>\n<p>What would make it illegal?<\/p>\n<p>What would make it a victory statement?<\/p>\n<p>What would make it viral?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at Yahoo! News. I saw a set of thumbnail pictures. I noticed one in particular. I clicked on it because I wanted to see if the photo were clear enough to read the writing on the document. Though I couldn&#8217;t read the writing, I wondered if I could read the message. To put &#8230; <a title=\"Fingering a Ballot\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/fingering-a-ballot\/\" aria-label=\"More on Fingering a Ballot\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-ki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}