{"id":5029,"date":"2012-01-11T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2012-01-11T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:20:44","slug":"for-your-entertainment-tourism-and-one-of-primary-nights-most-amusing-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/01\/11\/for-your-entertainment-tourism-and-one-of-primary-nights-most-amusing-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"For Your Entertainment: Tourism And One Of Primary Night&#8217;s Most Amusing Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5040\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Like most reporters in the general vicinity of NH, we were scouring Twitter during primary night\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/01\/5042764163_15405340fe.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5040\" title=\"Twitter Bird Sketch\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/01\/5042764163_15405340fe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/01\/5042764163_15405340fe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/01\/5042764163_15405340fe-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/01\/5042764163_15405340fe-138x103.jpg 138w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/01\/5042764163_15405340fe.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Shawn Campbell \/ Twitter<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Like most reporters in the general vicinity of NH, we were scouring Twitter during primary night<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of our most popular New Hampshire primary posts looked at how much the months-long political circus affects Granite State tourism.\u00a0 (You can read that post <a title=\"How Much Does The Primary Actually Help NH Tourism?\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/01\/10\/how-much-does-the-primary-actually-help-nh-tourism\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Political tourism is definitely a niche hobby.<\/p>\n<p>Given that context, we were rather entertained by this tweet from <a title=\"Union-Leader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Union-Leader<\/em><\/a> Editorial Page Editor Drew Cline:<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5033\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Given our post on the economic impact of political tourists on NH, we found this tweet particularly entertaining\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/01\/European-Political-Tourists-Tweet.png\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5033\" title=\"European Political Tourists Tweet\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/01\/European-Political-Tourists-Tweet-620x304.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/01\/European-Political-Tourists-Tweet-620x304.png 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/01\/European-Political-Tourists-Tweet-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/01\/European-Political-Tourists-Tweet-220x107.png 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/01\/European-Political-Tourists-Tweet.png 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Twitter<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Given our post on the economic impact of political tourists on NH, we found this tweet particularly entertaining<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Granted, a good number of those folks could&#8217;ve been media&#8230;but we nevertheless got a chuckle out of this one.\u00a0 And if you&#8217;re not familiar with the Sprockets reference (or you just like vintage SNL), just click <a title=\"SNL: Sprockets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/276488\/saturday-night-live-sprockets\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our most popular New Hampshire primary posts looked at how much the months-long political circus affects Granite State tourism.\u00a0 (You can read that post here.) Political tourism is definitely a niche hobby. Given that context, we were rather entertained by this tweet from Union-Leader Editorial Page Editor Drew Cline:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":5040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[227,501,499],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5029"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}