{"id":1710,"date":"2008-10-20T21:51:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T02:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2008-10-20T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T03:22:09","slug":"gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"*gloom*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s my gloomy scenario for the presidential election: Barack Obama loses by a slim margin. Immediately, the whispers begin: &#8220;The only reason Obama lost was because he was black.&#8221; &#8220;The only reason Obama lost was because McCain used racial innuendo, called Obama a Muslim.&#8221; The country becomes more divided; the racial divide widens more than anything else. Everything gets really ugly.<\/p>\n<p>Since I am (ethnically speaking) half New England Yankee, and half Pennsylvania Dutch, I am by nature a very gloomy person (this is why I&#8217;m a Universalist, I need to know that things will get better after I die). I had convinced myself that a slim loss by Obama would be what would happen. A win by Obama would be just as bad, due to the assassination attempts (being gloomy, I know there would be assassination attempts). Now I am trying to convince myself that McCain will win by a wide margin, since it is the least gloomy scenario for me.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I hate presidential election season. It&#8217;s almost as bad as watching the Red Sox lose postseason games. The only thing keeping me from total gloom is that the Yankees aren&#8217;t in the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>*gloom*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s my gloomy scenario for the presidential election: Barack Obama loses by a slim margin. Immediately, the whispers begin: &#8220;The only reason Obama lost was because he was black.&#8221; &#8220;The only reason Obama lost was because McCain used racial innuendo, called Obama a Muslim.&#8221; The country becomes more divided; the racial divide widens more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,47],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-culture","category-pop-culture","tag-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}