{"id":281,"date":"2012-05-04T03:14:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T03:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=281"},"modified":"2012-05-04T03:14:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T03:14:10","slug":"searching-in-all-the-wrong-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Searching in All the Wrong Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/news\/politics\/view\/20220502warren_i_used_minority_listing_to_make_friends\/srvc=home&amp;position=1\">Boston Herald<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade because she hoped to meet other people with tribal roots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am. Nothing like that ever happened, that was clearly not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off,\u201d said Warren.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So apparently Elizabeth Warren was searching for her Native American roots in law school directories.\u00a0 Not the first time people have looked for whatever they were after in the wrong places, and I&#8217;m not surprised she didn&#8217;t have much luck.\u00a0 My recommendation would be to spend some time on a reservation, where there will be plenty of people with &#8220;tribal roots.&#8221;\u00a0 Seems like a logical place to start.<\/p>\n<p>Stuff like this is why you can&#8217;t do satire on the Democrat party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Boston Herald: Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=281\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrat-party","category-the-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}