{"id":107,"date":"2008-02-29T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2008-02-29T20:27:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T20:27:31","slug":"american-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/life\/2008\/02\/american-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"American Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are busy here, both at work (I&#8217;m doing overtime) and at home (getting Katie to sleep is a intricate art), when I do get a chance, I seem to be reading a surprising amount about the American primaries given that it&#8217;s only the build up to an election in a foreign country. Listening to Obama speak is inspiring, it seems that <b>if<\/b> he wins, the US will have one of the good guys in charge.<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of good guys, given that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/\">Lessig<\/a> has decided not to run for congress in the States, maybe we could get him to run for the UK parliament, though maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/change-congress.org\/\">Change Congress<\/a> has a better ring to it than Change Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve been watching quite a bit (much less than Em!) of the excellent West Wing on DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are busy here, both at work (I&#8217;m doing overtime) and at home (getting Katie to sleep is a intricate art), when I do get a chance, I seem to be reading a surprising amount about the American primaries given that it&#8217;s only the build up to an election in a foreign country. Listening to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[31,29,28,27,3,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}