{"id":4378,"date":"2023-11-08T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2023-11-08T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T14:55:13","slug":"eight-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2023\/11\/08\/eight-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;d penciled this in as birthday round-up.  I&#8217;ll roll the celebrations into the trip recap tomorrow.  We&#8217;re finishing up packing to go home this evening.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been a somewhat-good trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saw the Saints&#8217; game on Sunday.  Sort-kinda watched election returns last night, but I really don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing I can do about it.  I tried to explain this to several people during the get-out-the-vote pushes over the past few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Virginia is one again &#8220;blue.&#8221;  Just the way Harry Byrd intended.  Whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll vote in the primaries agains the most bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Potentially the bright spot of the night:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Margin tightens slightly in Loudoun Co. Commonwealth&#39;s Attorney race:<br><br>R. D. Anderson (R)<br>66,730 votes \/ 50.4%<br><br>Buta Biberaj (D-inc.)<br>65,663 votes \/ 49.6%<br><br>94% of vote in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FOX5DC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FOX5DC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jim Lokay (@Lokay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lokay\/status\/1722097801012670929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She was so awful, one of the Circuit judges in Loudoun pulled her off cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I honestly can&#8217;t remember that ever happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still not amped on the idea of living in Loudoun again, but I guess it&#8217;s back on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>About two hours to vacate the hotel.  Then to NOLA to fly back to DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d penciled this in as birthday round-up. I&#8217;ll roll the celebrations into the trip recap tomorrow. We&#8217;re finishing up packing to go home this evening. It&#8217;s been a somewhat-good trip. Saw the Saints&#8217; game on Sunday. Sort-kinda watched election returns last night, but I really don&#8217;t care. There&#8217;s nothing I can do about it. I [&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-4378","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\/4378","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=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}