{"id":43,"date":"2008-11-05T01:36:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T01:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patclements.com\/article.php\/20081104063617233"},"modified":"2008-11-05T01:36:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T01:36:17","slug":"election-day-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Election Day Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"I voted early.  I was pretty much convinced of who I was going to vote for.&nbsp; And I didn't care if they suddenly found Bin Laden in a hole somewhere.&nbsp; Or if some video emerged of my candidate saying something back in the70's.&nbsp; People change their thoughts over the years about things.&nbsp; They become more open minded, evolving from hate and fear, to tolerance, and eventually acceptance.&nbsp; It's a personal growth that I hope Americans can go through over at least the next four years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/?p=43\" class=\"more-link\">Keep reading [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I voted early. I was pretty much convinced of who I was going to vote for.&nbsp; And I didn&#8217;t care if they suddenly found Bin Laden in a hole somewhere.&nbsp; Or if some video emerged of my candidate saying something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/?p=43\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-stuff-on-my-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patclements.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}