{"id":1448,"date":"2008-08-12T19:56:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2008-11-30T18:22:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T23:22:42","slug":"exclusive-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I was granted an official interview with Owen, the dog who has recently declared himself a third-party presidential candidate<\/a>. We spoke in his back yard during a game of fetch — Owen said he would answer one question for every toss of the tennis ball. Here’s a full transcript of our interview:<\/p>\n

Owen, what’s your energy policy?<\/em><\/p>\n

I have lots of energy! Throw the ball!<\/p>\n

What will you do about Iraq, if you are elected?<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ll give everybody lots of treats! And I’ll bring the troops home!<\/p>\n

What do you think of Paris Hilton?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Sorry, but any human who keep their dog in a purse is not to be trusted.<\/p>\n

Would you like to comment on the other two candidates?<\/em><\/p>\n

I like them! Let’s go for a walk!<\/p>\n

Owen ended the interview at this point, so that Jean, his campaign manager, could drive him to the woods to go for a walk. I was allowed to accompany them on the walk (it was very difficult keeping up with the candidate, who is in excellent physical condition and ran the whole time), but I agreed that I would not print any of our unofficial conversation. I can say, however, that recently Owen has learned how to swim and he’s quite good at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, I was granted an official interview with Owen, the dog who has recently declared himself a third-party presidential candidate. We spoke in his back yard during a game of fetch — Owen said he would answer one question for every toss of the tennis ball. Here’s a full transcript of our interview: Owen, what’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[365,225],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-culture","tag-owenthedog","tag-richmond-indiana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1972,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}