{"id":1114,"date":"2008-11-05T02:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/11\/05\/historic-wot\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T02:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T10:18:00","slug":"historic-wot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/11\/05\/historic-wot\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic, Wot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D and I watched the election results and speeches last night via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_depth\/americas\/2008\/vote_usa_2008\/default.stm\">BBC News<\/a>&#8216;s live Internet video feed.  It was nice to get a more international perspective on the whole thing, and the uncooperative satellite connection to Kenya was amusing, but SRSLY, soliciting commentary from Gore &#8220;grumpy old man&#8221; Vidal and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ZLGHy2WS_M\">John &#8220;antagonistic blowhard&#8221; Bolton<\/a>?  Sometimes I feel like the British are still making fun of us.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/us_elections_2008\/7709978.stm\">good news<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/afightingfaith\/2243020519\/sizes\/o\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 334px; height: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2358\/2243020519_d06b2c4462.jpg?v=0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><small>(image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/afightingfaith\/2243020519\/\">Flickr<\/a>, shout out to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mschlock\/status\/991283627\">mschlock<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>The bad news:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/ca_election_prop8-715732.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 293px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/ca_election_prop8-715728.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><small>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/politics\/cal\/la-2008election-california-results,0,1293859.htmlstory\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>I mean, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">come on<\/span>.  WTF, CA?  Los Angeles county went yes on Prop 8?  <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">LA county?<\/span>  Where&#8217;s the gay mafia when you need &#8217;em?<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D and I watched the election results and speeches last night via BBC News&#8216;s live Internet video feed. It was nice to get a more international perspective on the whole thing, and the uncooperative satellite connection to Kenya was amusing,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[25,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}