{"id":1256,"date":"2006-11-07T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T14:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-11-07T14:53:50","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T14:53:50","slug":"its_election_da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/a-383335~Marc_Danziger__We_ve_all_got_to_serve_somebody__as_Dylan_sang.html\" target=\"browser\">a piece up at the Examiner<\/a> explaining why I think today is a better national holiday than July 4 or Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Today is Election Day, which to me has always seemed to be the most appropriate national holiday for our country &#8211; better than July 4 or Thanksgiving. Today, the powerful are reminded that they serve the powerless, and another link in our intricate set of checks and balances is renewed.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/a-383336~Mark_Tapscott__Examiner_Blog_Boarders_predict_today_s_election.html\" target=\"browser\">their election predictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Election Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}