{"id":3390,"date":"2008-10-15T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/ironic-sans-a-new-hope-for-the-2008-election\/"},"modified":"2008-10-15T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T13:36:00","slug":"ironic-sans-a-new-hope-for-the-2008-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/ironic-sans-a-new-hope-for-the-2008-election.html","title":{"rendered":"Ironic Sans: A New Hope for the 2008 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/10\/15\/ironic-sans-poll\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bad Astronomy<\/a> for making me aware of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ironic Sans<\/a> blog, full of amusing stuff, from this poll, to campaign materials like the following: <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/images\/anewhope.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/images\/anewhope.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/images\/starwarspolitics.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/images\/starwarspolitics.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And to help you prepare for the real election on November 4th, there\u2019s this useful tool:<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3002\/2905956608_4ba517ed5e.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1205512022456267069?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Bad Astronomy for making me aware of the Ironic Sans blog, full of amusing stuff, from this poll, to campaign materials like the following: And to help you prepare for the real election on November 4th, there\u2019s this useful tool:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ironic Sans: A New Hope for the 2008 Election<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thanks to Bad Astronomy for making me aware of the Ironic Sans blog, full of amusing stuff, from this poll, to campaign materials like the following: And\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/ironic-sans-a-new-hope-for-the-2008-election.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ironic Sans: A New Hope for the 2008 Election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thanks to Bad Astronomy for making me aware of the Ironic Sans blog, full of amusing stuff, from this poll, to campaign materials like the following: And\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/ironic-sans-a-new-hope-for-the-2008-election.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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