{"id":169,"date":"2008-10-23T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/23\/opie-sherriff-andy-and-the-fonz-endorse-obama\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T21:13:00","slug":"opie-sherriff-andy-and-the-fonz-endorse-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/23\/opie-sherriff-andy-and-the-fonz-endorse-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Opie, Sherriff Andy, and the Fonz endorse Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t think Barack Obama was scrapping for rural votes?  Well, now he&#8217;s got the coveted Opie endorsement. <\/p>\n<p>Yep, THAT Opie.<\/p>\n<p>Forget Colin Powell.  The Democratic ticket has Sherriff Andy Griffith voting for him.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, it&#8217;s not small town &#8211; it&#8217;s downright Hollywood.  But for kabillions of Americans, especially age 30 and older, Ron Howard&#8217;s characters ARE rural icons.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/10\/23\/ron-howards-call-for-obam_n_137214.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/10\/23\/ron-howards-call-for-obam_n_137214.html<br \/><\/a><br \/>And if that&#8217;s not down home enough for you, check out bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley&#8217;s endorsement:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6FWenrdKswE&amp;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6FWenrdKswE&amp;feature=related<br \/><\/a><br \/>There&#8217;s a great bit in the recent New York Times article about Ralph Stanley&#8217;s meeting with Obama. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the candidate met Stanley backstage, Obama told him that he had some of Stanley\u2019s banjo music on his iPod. Stanley nodded appreciatively, but a few minutes later he turned to a friend and asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s an iPod?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t think Barack Obama was scrapping for rural votes? Well, now he&#8217;s got the coveted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}