{"id":940,"date":"2008-11-04T13:38:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2008-11-04T13:38:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:38:14","slug":"feels-like-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Feels like Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to leave milk and cookies out for the U.S. electorate for when they shimmy down the chimney to leave Obama under the tree.
\n***
\nI’m wearing my Obama badge today, and I’m checking CNN.com, which I only ever do when there’s an election in the U.S. And I can’t forget how I was feeling this time four years ago:
\nNovember 2, 2004<\/a>
\n9:53 PM: I’m not nervous about the winner. I’m confident it’s Kerry. I’m nervous that somehow or other Bush and his sickening puppeteers will find a way to walk away with their heads held high. I don’t just want them to lose – I want them and their entire mad project to be humiliated.<\/em>
\n11:24 AM: Aargh.<\/em>
\n***
\n*crosses fingers, again*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to leave milk and cookies out for the U.S. electorate for when they shimmy down the chimney to leave Obama under the tree. *** I’m wearing my Obama badge today, and I’m checking CNN.com, which I only ever do when there’s an election in the U.S. And I can’t forget how I was … Continue reading Feels like Christmas Eve<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-fa","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}