{"id":4003,"date":"2022-11-08T08:35:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T13:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2022-11-08T08:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T13:35:25","slug":"eight-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/eight-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Plans for Election Day<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how incredibly busy I am, but, at the same time, not that busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve done most of what I came here to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the morning, I&#8217;ve got a meeting with the security guy.  Later in the morning, I meet with the guy who&#8217;s been mowing the grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Need to get these package off to my brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe meet someone who can help me put these electronic devices back in place now that I&#8217;ve gotten replacement batteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish there was a way I could describe the complete ambivalence I feel at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That somewhat applies to the pols, but not completely.  I&#8217;m not all about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/10\/covid-response-forgiveness\/671879\/\" target=\"_blank\">calling a truce<\/a>.  No, there needs to be retribution towards the people who overstepped bounds.  The pols get some of their punishment after today.  On the personal side, I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I voted absentee knowing I&#8217;d be out of town on Election Day.  There was only one race on the ballot.  The district where I live has been &#8220;blue&#8221; since the Northern Aggressors went back across the Potomac in 1876.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever.  I don&#8217;t expect the candidate I voted for to win, but I really think there needs to be some younger blood injected into the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/shows\/kennedy\" target=\"_blank\">Kennedy<\/a> has repeatedly called for a GenX takeover.  I don&#8217;t know.  There are so few of us that we&#8217;re easy to forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I apologize.  I&#8217;m really not tracking with this this morning.  Waiting on deliveries, distracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I can circle back tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans for Election Day I can&#8217;t tell you how incredibly busy I am, but, at the same time, not that busy. I think I&#8217;ve done most of what I came here to do. In the morning, I&#8217;ve got a meeting with the security guy. Later in the morning, I meet with the guy who&#8217;s been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}