{"id":253,"date":"2004-05-14T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/"},"modified":"2004-05-14T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T08:55:00","slug":"253","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/253\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/asparaguspee.blogspot.com\/rupert.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Blackbeard makes it big.\" \/>Well, last night I went to bed all sad-ified that Latoya London had lost the vote. I was really thinking, &#8220;Well, OK, that just cuts it. It was one thing with Bush and Gore and Florida and the chads, but I think this just proves that &#8216;America&#8217; isn&#8217;t qualified to vote, and we should just go with Plato&#8217;s ideal of a philosopher king (and yes, I&#8217;ll volunteer).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But then tonight? We voted for The Dread Pirate Rupert the friendly giant, and my faith in democracy was somehow restored. Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, last night I went to bed all sad-ified that Latoya London had lost the vote. I was really thinking, &#8220;Well, OK, that just cuts it. It was one thing with Bush and Gore and Florida and the chads, but I think this just proves that &#8216;America&#8217; isn&#8217;t qualified to vote, and we should just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/253\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}