{"id":630,"date":"2008-11-04T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2008-11-04T01:00:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T09:00:26","slug":"election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Election??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard somewhere there&#8217;s an election on today! Well, thanks to my recent citizenship, I received a mail-in ballot so I am pretty sure the rumours are correct. Odd that I haven&#8217;t seen anything on TV \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I filled my card in a couple of weeks ago but Teri will take it to the polling station with her today. Not that I think my vote will count for much &#8211; don&#8217;t need to count the votes to know that my Presidential candidate certainly didn&#8217;t win. I did vote yes on a couple of state Propositions, be interesting to see if they pass. Locally, a friend of the family is standing for a position against an incompetent incumbent who has run a pretty negative campaign; hopefully he will win.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what channel to watch the events unfold on. Usually Keith Olberman is my choice for these things but I can&#8217;t take his over-the-top pro-Obama stance so will look elsewhere, maybe CNN is the best of a bad bunch? BBC America is covering it but I don&#8217;t have that here in the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Or you can watch it all unfold in this widget, handily supplied by Google.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.gmodules.com\/ig\/ifr?url=http:\/\/general-election-2008.googlecode.com\/svn\/trunk\/results-gadget.xml&amp;up_state=us&amp;up_race=President&amp;up_countdown=1&amp;synd=open&amp;w=450&amp;h=353&amp;title=2008+Election+Results+from+Google&amp;lang=all&amp;country=ALL&amp;border=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmodules.com%2Fig%2Fimages%2F&amp;output=js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard somewhere there&#8217;s an election on today! Well, thanks to my recent citizenship, I received a mail-in ballot so I am pretty sure the rumours are correct. Odd that I haven&#8217;t seen anything on TV \ud83d\ude42 I filled my card in a couple of weeks ago but Teri will take it to the polling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26,66],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-america","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}