{"id":383,"date":"2008-11-03T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T23:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/just-trying-to-get-through-the-next-30-hours-or-so\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T23:10:35","slug":"just-trying-to-get-through-the-next-30-hours-or-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/just-trying-to-get-through-the-next-30-hours-or-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Just trying to get through the next 30 hours or so&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, I would have described my mental outlook on the election as &#8220;uneasy&#8221; verging on &#8220;cautiously optimistic&#8221;. Then I read <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/2008\/11\/prepostelection_hypothetical\" target=\"_blank\">this wrenching post on the Stranger Blog<\/a> that dug up all the shock and mourning I went through in 2004, and my state descended more into &#8220;terror&#8221;. I don&#8217;t agree with every detail of the post (such as blaming racism for everything, when plain old fundamentalist social conservatism is also to blame), but the emotion is pitch-perfect.<\/p>\n<p>I went through a lot of anguish four years ago. (If you want to dig through my archives and find the pure bile that resulted, you can; I&#8217;m not going to link it.) I bitterly clung to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Content?oid=19813\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Archipelago<\/a> idea. Thinking of that misery now still makes me emotional.<\/p>\n<p>Please, America. Don&#8217;t crush me again tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, I would have described my mental outlook on the election as &#8220;uneasy&#8221; verging on &#8220;cautiously optimistic&#8221;. Then I read this wrenching post on the Stranger Blog that dug up all the shock and mourning I went through in 2004, and my state descended more into &#8220;terror&#8221;. I don&#8217;t agree with every detail of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}