{"id":7233,"date":"2008-10-03T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/68.169.38.31\/?p=7233"},"modified":"2008-10-03T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T15:23:00","slug":"vp-debate-takeaway-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/vp-debate-takeaway-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Debate Takeaway: Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.crazydreams.com\/images\/p353.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/>Governor Palin sounds exactly like Fran the Squirrel from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Higglytown_Heroes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Higglytown Heroes<\/a><\/em>. Fran the Squirrel is voiced by Edie McClurg, the actress who played Grace the Secretary in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091042\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Palin won the debate with regular Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Palin sounds exactly like Fran the Squirrel from Higglytown Heroes. Fran the Squirrel is voiced by Edie McClurg, the actress who played Grace the Secretary in Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off. Palin won the debate with regular Americans.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/vp-debate-takeaway-palin\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2688,2044,2687,1788,423],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edie-mcclurg","category-ferris-bueller","category-fran-the-squirrel","category-higglytown-heroes","category-sarah-palin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VP Debate Takeaway: Palin - The Gormogons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/vp-debate-takeaway-palin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VP Debate Takeaway: Palin - The Gormogons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Palin sounds exactly like Fran the Squirrel from Higglytown Heroes. 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