{"id":348869,"date":"2010-02-22T08:53:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77268"},"modified":"2010-02-22T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:53:08","slug":"%e2%80%98they-rocked-the-casbah-mama-sama%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/348869","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Rocked the Casbah, Mama-Sama!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ducked in and out of XPAC, the lounge-for-kids (i.e., kids without photo IDs to get them into Woodley Park bars) in the basement of CPAC. Like a lot of other reporters, I chatted briefly with Stephen Baldwin. Lydia DePillas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/bodacious-xtremely\">spent two days there<\/a>, witnessing an award ceremony for Hannah Giles, the political debut of Autotune the News, and much more.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Problem is, it\u2019s much harder to make the political cool than to make what\u2019s already cool political. <span id=\"more-77268\"><\/span>As Carroll talked, the night\u2019s \u201cjam session\u201d was beginning\u2014they had moved it up from the originally scheduled time of 11:00 p.m., realizing that no one would come\u2014but most people had already filtered out as the rapper Politik took the stage. \u201cI see y\u2019all leaving over there!\u201d he shouted at back of the room. \u201cI\u2019ve got a message!\u201d One mom sat bobbing her head to his tea-party-centric rhymes (\u201ctwo-thousand-nine, dangerous times, socialist agenda that they want us to sign!\u201d). <br title=\"editor\" \/> <br title=\"editor\" \/> \u201cYou can clap if you want to, it always makes me feel better,\u201d Politik told the sparse audience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ducked in and out of XPAC, the lounge-for-kids (i.e., kids without photo IDs to get them into Woodley Park bars) in the basement of CPAC. Like a lot of other reporters, I chatted briefly with Stephen Baldwin. Lydia DePillas spent two days there, witnessing an award ceremony for Hannah Giles, the political debut of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}