{"id":845,"date":"2008-05-21T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T16:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=845"},"modified":"2008-05-21T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T16:06:24","slug":"raising-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/21\/raising-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the kids over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingkaine.com\/\">RaisingKaine.com<\/a> are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingkaine.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=14273\">very very upset<\/a> that Gov. Tim Kaine has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/20\/AR2008052001817.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">endorsed Gerry Connolly<\/a> over their preferred candidate, Leslie Byrne for the race to replace retiring Rep. Tom Davis (11th CD).  They&#8217;re so upset that they&#8217;ve snatched down the site masthead &#8211; that read &#8220;Raising Kaine&#8221;, for years &#8211; and have replaced it with a black bar.  While I&#8217;ve always thought it wasn&#8217;t terribly wise to hitch the identity of a community site to an individual politician (tho&#8217; perhaps representative of the site&#8217;s approach to politics), this is just really &#8211; and amusingly &#8211; childish.  Great job, guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the kids over at RaisingKaine.com are very very upset that Gov. Tim Kaine has endorsed Gerry Connolly over their preferred candidate, Leslie Byrne for the race to replace retiring Rep. Tom Davis (11th CD). 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