{"id":175864,"date":"2020-11-07T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/07\/and-the-election-is-finally-called\/"},"modified":"2020-11-07T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T00:34:00","slug":"and-the-election-is-finally-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/07\/and-the-election-is-finally-called\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Election is Finally Called"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-color: black; border-image: none; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n6RoOwSKI7M\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Get over it<br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<p>The have called the election for Joe Biden by all the major media organizations now.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/biden-trump\">called for Biden earlier today<\/a>, giving him a total of 279 electoral college, though when Arizona and Georgia (!) finish counting, the total is likely be be 306.<\/p>\n<p>A number of people have suggested that we give a few days for the Trump supporters to deal this emotionally.<\/p>\n<p>F%$# that.<\/p>\n<p>They are a bunch of f%$#ing snowflakes, and so I am to channel my inner Trump voter, and tell them to get the f%$# over it, and to get the f%$# over themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going out and stomping on Cheetos<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> right now, though I did try to convince the family to go to the White House and start chanting, &#8220;Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They wisely decided to take a nap instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get over it The have called the election for Joe Biden by all the major media organizations now. Pennsylvania was called for Biden earlier today, giving him a total of 279 electoral college, though when Arizona and Georgia (!) finish counting, the total is likely be be 306. A number of people have suggested that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,405,486],"class_list":["post-175864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}