{"id":104,"date":"2006-11-09T00:18:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T07:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/myblog\/category\/mythoughts\/vote-er-nevermind"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:45","slug":"vote-er-nevermind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/vote-er-nevermind\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE!!! &#8211; er&#8230; Nevermind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">Imaging that you are watching a sports\u00c2\u00a0team that you grew up with as a kid play the big game.\u00c2\u00a0 Only &#8211; they haven&#8217;t been all that good in the last few years and you don&#8217;t like the new coach.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, you would even think about not cheering for them but they are playing their rivals and you still hate that team more than you dislike the new coaches of your team.\u00c2\u00a0 This is how I went into last night&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">We lost.\u00c2\u00a0 And how could we not?\u00c2\u00a0 As a friend put it &#8211; The Republicans forgot to dance with the one that brought &#8217;em.\u00c2\u00a0 Conservatives feel like the fat girl on the bench &#8211; and since most of us are either entrepreneurs, self-employed or both, we tend to expect results.\u00c2\u00a0 When we don&#8217;t get them, we fire people.\u00c2\u00a0 Republicans were fired yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">To be honest, I cannot image a result that I would have been happy with last night.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe the Dems can do better&#8230; I fear they will do much worse.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"3\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imaging that you are watching a sports\u00c2\u00a0team that you grew up with as a kid play the big game.\u00c2\u00a0 Only &#8211; they haven&#8217;t been all that good in the last few years and you don&#8217;t like the new coach.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, you would even think about not cheering for them but they are playing their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}