{"id":49,"date":"2008-11-07T06:45:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T10:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddbenatar.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2008-11-07T06:45:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T10:45:41","slug":"elections-are-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2008\/11\/07\/elections-are-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections are over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness the elections are over!\u00a0 The phone has quieted down, the robocalls have stopped &#8211; THANK GOODNESS INDEED!\u00a0 I was getting awfully tired of answering the phone about six times every night, just to be greeted by a pre-recorded political message.\u00a0 I&#8217;d simply hang up on them, but it was a huge annoyance just the same.\u00a0 I keep a phone by the bed in case there is an emergency and someone needs to reach me, but I do go to bed early (after all, I AM a farmer!) and I was being awakened every night for weeks with those stupid robocalls!\u00a0 It has been nice the past couple of nights to be able to SLEEP!<\/p>\n<p>As for the aftermath of the election, so far I have to say that I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised that the celebrations have been so very peaceful.\u00a0 I was thinking that the celebrations would be similar to the celebrations that happen after sporting events where the masses of people start to get a little carried away in their enthusiasm and end up damaging property.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad to say that around here it seems that has not been the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness the elections are over!\u00a0 The phone has quieted down, the robocalls have stopped &#8211; THANK GOODNESS INDEED!\u00a0 I was getting awfully tired of answering the phone about six times every night, just to be greeted by a pre-recorded political message.\u00a0 I&#8217;d simply hang up on them, but it was a huge annoyance just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2008\/11\/07\/elections-are-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elections are over&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-living","category-politics","category-societycommunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}