{"id":12,"date":"2008-10-16T21:28:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T01:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=12"},"modified":"2009-03-18T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:32:06","slug":"joe-the-plumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2008\/10\/16\/joe-the-plumber\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Joe the Plumber&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/av\/news\/experts\/photos1\/BerkovitzTobe2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tobe Berkovitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/tobe_berkovitz.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Tobe Berkovitz<\/span><\/a>, Associate Dean of the\u00a0College of Communication, comments on &#8220;Joe the Plumber&#8221; becoming a political symbol.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<em>&#8220;So what&#8217;s with the politicians&#8217; fascination with plumbers at election time? We have Joe the Plumber taking center stage as the symbol of the economic meltdown&#8217;s impact on small business owners. <\/em><em>\u00a0&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing new under the sun, and that includes plumbers in political campaigns. In the 2005 French referendum on the EU Constitution, the desirability of hiring a Polish plumber became a core message in the debate over the benefits of an even or unified EU. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Joe the Plumber, Polish Plumber &#8212; I guess we&#8217;ve moved on from Hockey Moms.&#8221;<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tobe Berkovitz, Associate Dean of the\u00a0College of Communication, comments on &#8220;Joe the Plumber&#8221; becoming a political symbol. \u00a0&#8220;So what&#8217;s with the politicians&#8217; fascination with plumbers at election time? We have Joe the Plumber taking center stage as the symbol of the economic meltdown&#8217;s impact on small business owners. \u00a0&#8221; &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing new under the sun, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[73,74,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}