{"id":5800,"date":"2012-01-01T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T20:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2012-01-01T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T20:40:12","slug":"bachmann-mother-of-28-plays-gendermom-card-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/bachmann-mother-of-28-plays-gendermom-card-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann, Mother of 28, Plays Gender\/Mom Card in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which is funny, because Iowa is one of only two states that has never had a female in congress or the statehouse.  <\/p>\n<p>Bachmann is the only female candidate in the current Republican field.  They used to have a black guy but he&#8217;s gone.  And I must say that I&#8217;m very disappointed that the only woman is, apparently, about to be shoved to the side in the race to the top.  I&#8217;m not disappointed because of the gender bias &#8230; I fully expect that from the Tea Bagging Republicans.  A woman&#8217;s place is in the home, making babies and brownies, obviously.  I&#8217;m disappointed becuase Michele was, indeed still is, my candidate.  I so much want her to do well in this race and truly set her sights on the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t give up, Michele!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2012\/01\/01\/bachmann-plays-gender-card-as-iowa-gop-vote-nears\/\">Here&#8217;s the story<\/a> from WCCO discussing the gender thing.  It talks about how Michele is a real coupon clipper and stuff.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is funny, because Iowa is one of only two states that has never had a female in congress or the statehouse. Bachmann is the only female candidate in the current Republican field. They used to have a black guy but he&#8217;s gone. And I must say that I&#8217;m very disappointed that the only woman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/bachmann-mother-of-28-plays-gendermom-card-in-iowa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bachmann, Mother of 28, Plays Gender\/Mom Card in Iowa<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"tags":[341,284],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1vy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}