{"id":169,"date":"2004-11-07T09:39:52","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=169"},"modified":"2004-11-08T09:57:17","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T14:57:17","slug":"now-that-its-sunk-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Now that it&#8217;s sunk in&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my fellow Americans (some more fellow than others), in the days since we&#8217;ve handed over a slim victory to our oh-so-beloved dicta-errr, President, the following events have occured:<\/p>\n<p>1. Wisconsin is yet another state to pretty much<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/EDUCATION\/11\/06\/evolution.schools.ap\/index.html\"> abandon actual, sane science<\/a> in its schools (so much for &#8220;No Child Left Behind&#8221;),<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/11\/07\/charley.housing.ap\/index.html\">No aid is coming<\/a> to hurricane victims in Florida (it&#8217;s been what now, two months since the last hurricane?)<\/p>\n<p>3. Iraq is in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/11\/07\/iraq.main\/index.html\">panic mode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>4. At least one other person agrees with me that the U.S. population has gone stark raving mad.  Only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/11\/07\/ground.zero.suicide.ap\/index.html\">he&#8217;s no longer living<\/a> because of it.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems a lot of people who voted for Bush (at least the ones I&#8217;ve asked about and have heard opinions from) don&#8217;t really like him, but they were simply afraid to vote for anyone else because there&#8217;s a perception in the US that even if the commander-in-chief is bollocksing-up a war, you don&#8217;t switch leaders in the middle of it.  Why?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us recap what has happened since the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}