{"id":256,"date":"2008-11-05T00:57:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T00:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/huge-election\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T00:57:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T00:57:44","slug":"huge-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/huge-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re snuggled up on the sofa with a parrot, a jug of red wine, and a pizza on the way, watching the BBC&#8217;s coverage of the election. Having Dimbleby guiding us through the torture is a real comfort, as is a reassuringly anti-McCain injection of Christopher Hitchens. Sympathetic friends are only an Instant Message away and so the excitement is incredible. Maybe this is what it felt like to be a Phillies fan last Wednesday night ?<br \/>\nNot for a second do I think we&#8217;ll know the final result tonight, and my cynical side is predicting some utterly depressing results that will make me want to go to bed. <\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the title. It&#8217;s a tribute to Benny Hill; if only he was still alive, we could be treated to his impression of a Chinese man talking about the &#8220;Gleat Erection.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re snuggled up on the sofa with a parrot, a jug of red wine, and a pizza on the way, watching the BBC&#8217;s coverage of the election. Having Dimbleby guiding us through the torture is a real comfort, as is a reassuringly anti-McCain injection of Christopher Hitchens. Sympathetic friends are only an Instant Message away [&hellip;]<\/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-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}