{"id":22962,"date":"2011-04-30T18:35:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T01:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22962"},"modified":"2011-05-01T09:34:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T16:34:48","slug":"shaun-white-playing-power-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22962","title":{"rendered":"Shaun White Playing Power Politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/white-whca-brunch-thumb-500x375-34034.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/white-whca-brunch-thumb-500x375-34034.jpeg','popup','width=500,height=375,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/white-whca-brunch-thumb-500x375-34034-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"White Whca Brunch-Thumb-500X375-34034\" \/><\/a>For the past 10 years news producer <strong>Tammy Haddad<\/strong> has thrown a brunch party at her home the morning before the annual <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/whca.net\/dinner.htm\" target=\"_blank\">White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner<\/a><\/strong> in Washington, DC. <\/p>\n<p>The brunch features one of the most exclusive guest lists on the celebrity party circuit. For today&#8217;s event (April 30, 2011), aside from inviting <strong>Sarah Palin<\/strong>, <strong>Scarlett Johansson<\/strong>, and <strong>Rupert <\/strong>and <strong>Wendi Murdoch<\/strong>, Haddad invited <strong>Shaun White<\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/2011\/04\/white_house_correspondents_ass_4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Georgetown brunch was sponsored by Tammy Haddad and Ted Greenberg; Kevin Sheekey, Hilary Rosen, Mark Ein, Alex Castellanos, Anita Dunn, Bill Knapp, Jim Courtovich, David Adler, Steve McMahon and Franco Nuschese. . . Two charities were highlighted : <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cureepilepsy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CURE Epilepsy<\/a><\/strong>, founded by Susan Axelrod, whose husband, David, is a key Obama advisor and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteribbonalliance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">White Ribbon Alliance<\/a><\/strong>, overseen by Wendi Murdoch, married to media mogul Rupert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re guessing this is one of those parties that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/caa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CAA<\/a><\/strong> requires Shaun to attend. After looking at Shaun&#8217;s posh garb there really is no other explanation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/2011\/04\/white_house_correspondents_ass_4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 10 years news producer Tammy Haddad has thrown a brunch party at her home the morning before the annual White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner in Washington, DC. The brunch features one of the most exclusive guest lists on the celebrity party circuit. For today&#8217;s event (April 30, 2011), aside from inviting Sarah Palin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22964,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22962\/revisions\/22964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}