{"id":288,"date":"2008-01-09T10:58:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T15:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2008-01-09T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T15:58:36","slug":"minority-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Minority President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lilly Goren, contributing to the under-appreciated, but\u00c2\u00a0ever-interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.britannica.com\/blog\/main\/\">Britannica Blog<\/a>, helps us figure out whether America is more likely to elect a woman or a black man as president.<\/p>\n<p>How does she do it? She collects and assesses historical data from the only really important sources that ever existed: Movies and Television Series.<\/p>\n<p>Her findings tell us that Obama has a better chance than Hillary. (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.britannica.com\/blog\/main\/2008\/01\/better-chance-for-a-man-of-color-than-for-a-woman-in-the-white-house-lessons-from-hollywood-and-tv\/\">Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>[Incidentally, I&#8217;m against the word &#8220;series&#8221; because it&#8217;s awkard to pluralize.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lilly Goren, contributing to the under-appreciated, but\u00c2\u00a0ever-interesting Britannica Blog, helps us figure out whether America is more likely to elect a woman or a black man as president. How does she do it? She collects and assesses historical data from the only really important sources that ever existed: Movies and Television Series. Her findings tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}