{"id":715052,"date":"2010-04-12T23:34:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T03:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.75923"},"modified":"2010-04-12T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T03:54:08","slug":"what-no-gourmet-chocolates-or-luxury-hotel-stays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/715052","title":{"rendered":"What??? No gourmet chocolates or luxury hotel stays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Each person attending tonight&#8217;s Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey dinner left with a goodie bag.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, this isn&#8217;t t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/cheat-sheet\/item\/oscar-gift-bag-contents-revealed\/swag\/\">he Oscar<\/a>s: the swag bags here weren&#8217;t filled with expensive baubles or vouchers for African safaris. The giveaways were decidedly more utilitarian.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Take the handy booklet filled with various Post-It notes courtesy of gubernatorial candidate Mary Glassman.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ned Lamont, also running for governor, handed out little rubber basketballs, in the spirt of the UConn Huskies national championship. The small, soft orb makes a perfect dog toy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Most candidates gave out brochures, but give Lt. Governor candidate Kevin Lembo credit for creativity: his handout could be cut into a pair of &#8220;nerd glasses.&#8221; Maybe he was inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.courant.com\/colin_mcenroe_to_wit\/2010\/01\/bespectacled.html\">Colin McEnroe<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And finally Susan Bysiewicz. Ever practical, she gave out these rugged canvas tote bags.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG00084-20100412-2025-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.courant.com\/capitol_watch\/IMG00084-20100412-2025-1.jpg?resize=528%2C400\" width=\"528\" height=\"400\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each person attending tonight&#8217;s Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey dinner left with a goodie bag.&nbsp; However, this isn&#8217;t the Oscars: the swag bags here weren&#8217;t filled with expensive baubles or vouchers for African safaris. The giveaways were decidedly more utilitarian. Take the handy booklet filled with various Post-It notes courtesy of gubernatorial candidate Mary Glassman.&nbsp; Ned Lamont, also running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-3016","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}