{"id":937,"date":"2004-09-24T01:16:45","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T08:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=937"},"modified":"2004-09-24T01:16:45","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T08:16:45","slug":"an-election-that-is-not-quite-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/09\/24\/an-election-that-is-not-quite-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"An Election that is not quite perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002799\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/3685340.stm\">&#8220;Well, so be it, nothing is perfect in life, so you have an election that&#8217;s not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know, if the Confederate States had been able to vote in the 1864 election, Abraham Lincoln would not have won a second term.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Well, so be it, nothing is perfect in life, so you have an election that&#8217;s not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.&#8221; You know, if the Confederate States had been able to vote in the 1864 election, Abraham Lincoln would not have won a second term. Think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}