{"id":1743,"date":"2003-11-19T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T03:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/11\/19\/the-party-party-wacky-season-begins\/"},"modified":"2003-11-19T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T03:15:08","slug":"the-party-party-wacky-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/19\/the-party-party-wacky-season-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Party Party &#8211; Wacky Season Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1841'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"500\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"211\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/bb4.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"829\"><em><br \/>\nStanding at just 5 feet tall, Mario would be the shortest U.S. president ever,<br \/>\n      4 inches shorter than James Madison. He would be only the second bachelor<br \/>\n      president, after James Buchanan (Princess Peach has offered to take on<br \/>\n      the duties of the first lady).<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the campaign said that Mario was considering following in the<br \/>\nfootsteps of John F. Kennedy by making his brother, Luigi, an integral part of<br \/>\nhis administration, possibly even his running mate. The rest of Mario&#8217;s top advisers<br \/>\nembody diversity itself with the inclusion of Toad (a 29-inch diplomat from the<br \/>\nMushroom Kingdom), Yoshi(TM) (a long-tongued dinosaur) and Donkey Kong(R) (a<br \/>\nstubborn ape). The political quintet has been dubbed the &quot;Mario Party 5.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Some<br \/>\nscholars wondered whether Mario could overcome the constitutional hurdles facing<br \/>\nhis candidacy. For starters, they noted, Mario was not born in the<br \/>\n      United States, and is short of the constitutionally mandated 35 years.<br \/>\n      <\/em><em><\/p>\n<p>&quot;With the many actors getting into politics recently, I thought, &#8216;Hey, I&#8217;m<br \/>\nmore entertaining than many of them&#8217;, not to mention, I&#8217;m a lot more animated,&quot; Mario<br \/>\n  says. &quot;Anyone who gets involved with the Mario Party knows that it&#8217;s all<br \/>\n  about nonstop action and fun.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/google\/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20031111005399&amp;newsLang=en\">from<br \/>\n          Business Wire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing at just 5 feet tall, Mario would be the shortest U.S. president ever, 4 inches shorter than James Madison. He would be only the second bachelor president, after James Buchanan (Princess Peach has offered to take on the duties &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/19\/the-party-party-wacky-season-begins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}