{"id":1815,"date":"2003-10-05T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2003-10-06T03:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/05\/dean-meat-ups\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:24:42","slug":"dean-meat-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/05\/dean-meat-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean &#039;meat-ups&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13173,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\\\/eyv&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Hmmm &#8212; seems like I need to get out of the house and go to some of the local Dean meet-ups at some point. Apparently, they&#8217;re the <a href=\"Hmmm%20\u2014%20seems%20like%20I%20need%20to%20get%20out%20of%20the%20house%20and%20go%20to%20some%20of%20the%20local%20Dean%20meet-ups%20at%20some%20point.%20Apparently,%20they're%20the%20newest%20hot%20place%20to%20meet%20singles!\" title=\"Political Partying\">newest hot place to meet singles<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Though Wesley Clark may emerge as the boomer favorite among the Democratic presidential candidates, the hipster choice so far is Howard Dean. It&#8217;s not just his rolled-up sleeves or down-home oratory style; over the past three months, his events have developed a reputation as de facto singles mixers for young activists on the make.<\/p>\n<p>  Many of the events are set up through Meetup.com, a nonpolitical site that lets users arrange events. Most Dean meet-ups (nicknamed &#8220;meat-ups&#8221; by some) are in flirt-friendly locales like bars and restaurants. There are so many swinging supporters that they&#8217;ve formed a group, Singles for Dean, and the campaign recently launched Deanlink, where users post provocative photos alongside their political interests.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  Straight women, meanwhile, have been spreading the word that Dean guys are passionate and cute. &#8220;I want to meet some nice, hunky, liberal-minded boys who aren&#8217;t apathetic losers living in their parents&#8217; basements,&#8221; says Abigail Gullo, 30, an actress and teacher who has attended two meet-ups and a recent fund-raiser at Avalon. Dean guys, she says, are attractive, if not studly&#8212;kind of like the doctor himself. &#8220;It&#8217;s the dorky-glasses, slightly-thinning-hair-but-I&#8217;m-really-not-worried-about-it look. They&#8217;re hipsters who have given up the ironic T-shirts and are now in refined primary colors and button-down guayabera shirts. But they&#8217;re there! And that immediately puts them leaps and bounds ahead of any guy I&#8217;m going to meet on Match.com.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\/eyv\/\" title=\"Eat Your Vegetables\">Lane<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm &mdash; seems like I need to get out of the house and go to some of the local Dean meet-ups at some point. Apparently, they&#8217;re the newest hot place to meet singles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}