{"id":1106,"date":"2004-06-04T17:51:14","date_gmt":"2004-06-05T00:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2004-06-04T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2004-06-05T00:51:14","slug":"1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/06\/04\/1988\/","title":{"rendered":"1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002354\"><\/a>In 1988, the day after election day, my brother was as upset with the election of George Bush over Michael Dukakis as a seventh grader (or was it eighth?) could plausbly be.<\/p>\n<p>He went around the kitchen in mock-horror, &#8212; as Good Morning America was on in the family room going over the election results &#8212;  clapping his feet together saying &#8220;There&#8217;s no place like home.  There&#8217;s no place like home.  Get me back to Kansas.&#8221;  The metaphor was The Wizard of Oz&#8230; see: he woke up in a bizarre dream-world where the populace had just elected a George Bush president, I suppose possibly validating the Reagan regime.<\/p>\n<p>Election Day, I asked my speech therapist (as a model of good citizenship, wearing the &#8220;I Voted&#8221; sticker) who she voted for.  &#8220;George Bush&#8221;.  I can&#8217;t say I fully, or even half- understood the ramnifications of either vote, but&#8230; I asked &#8220;Why?&#8221; and she only answered &#8220;The better person for the job&#8221; before moving on to the task at hand &#8212; likely going over that dreaded &#8220;r&#8221; sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1988, the day after election day, my brother was as upset with the election of George Bush over Michael Dukakis as a seventh grader (or was it eighth?) could plausbly be. He went around the kitchen in mock-horror, &#8212; as Good Morning America was on in the family room going over the election results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}